So it was with really great __5__ that I stood in church one recent Sunday,video camera in hand,and __6__ my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt __7__ rising to play the piano in his very first recital.
My father had longed to play music since childhood,but his family was poor and couldn’t __8__ lessons.He could have gone on regretting it,__9__ too many of us do.But though he was rooted in his past,he wasn’t __10__ there.When he retired three years ago,he __11__ his church music director to take him as a student.
For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard,he __12__ stared down at his fingers.Has he forgotten the __13__?I worried,remembering those split seconds __14__ ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would __15__.But then came the beautiful melody(旋律),from the __16__ fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines.And I __17__ he had been doing what music teachers always stress:__18__ the music and pretend the others aren’t there.
“I’m __19__ of him for starting something new at his age,”I said to my son Jeff.
“Yeah,and doing it so __20__,”Jeff added.
With his first recital,my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30-plus years ago.
1.A.reflected
B.explainedC.meant
D.proved
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