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I learned how to accept life as it is from my father    1   ,he didn't teach me acceptance when he was
strong and healthy, but rather when he was      2      and ill.
My father was__3__a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness__4__all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is__5__ .One night, I went to
visit him with my sisters. We started__6__about life, and I told them about one of my__7_.I said that we must very often give things up__8_we grow---our health, our beauty, our friends---but it always__9__that
after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father__10_up. He said, "But, Peter, I gave up__11_! What did I gain?" I thought and thought ,but I couldn't think of anything to say._12__,he answered his own question,"I_13_the love of my family." I looked at my sisters and saw tears in
their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also__14   by his words. After that, when I began to feel angry at someone, I__15_remember
his words and become__16_.If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I
should be__17_to give up my small anger. In this__18_, I learned the power of acceptance from my
father.
Sometimes I__19__what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully
when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this     20      

(     )1. A.  Afterwards     (     )2. A.  tired           (     )3. A.  already         (     )4. A.  took           (     )5. A.  impossible     (     )6. A.  worrying       (     )7. A.  decisions       (     )8. A.  as             (     )9. A.  suggests       (     )10. A.  spoke         (     )11. A.  something     (     )12. A.  Surprisingly   (     )13. A.  had           (     )14. A.  touched       (     )15. A.  should         (     )16. A.  quiet         (     )17. A.  ready         (     )18. A.  case           (     )19. A.  doubt         (     )20. A.  award

B.  Therefore     B.  weak           B.  still         B.  threw         B.  difficult     B.  caring         B.  experiences   B.  since         B.  promises       B.  turned         B.  anything       B.  Immediately   B.  accepted       B.  astonished     B.  could         B.  calm           B.  likely         B.  form           B.  wonder         B.  gift

C.  However         C.  poor           C.  only           C.  sent           C.  stressful       C.  talking         C.  ambitions       C.  before         C.  seems           C.  summed         C.  nothing         C.  Naturally       C.  gained         C.  attracted       C.  would           C.  relaxed         C.  free           C.  method         C.  know           C. lesson

D.  Meanwhile       D.  slow           D. once             D.  put             D.  hopeless       D.  asking         D.  beliefs         D.  till           D.  requires       D.  opened         D.  everything     D. Certainly       D.  enjoyed         D.  warned         D.  might           D.  happy           D.  able           D.  way             D.  guess           D. word

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