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通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

Time is very important in our life. But it never had any importance in my life until I _________a watch from my father. It ________ me the importance of time in my life.

I got this gift on a gray-sky day. I had to go to the   _______ to pick up (接)my uncle Ali. However，I forgot it _______   I was playing with my friends. Later I   ______   my uncle， but I was late for him. He had to   _____   a taxi to my father’s house.

I got to my father’s house     ____   . My father looked at me angrily. I said “Hi” to him and my _______ uncle. My father asked me to sit   ______   him and gave me this watch which was a gift from ______   . It was made of silver. Then he said，“Essa, did you have fun ______     your friends today? What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your _______ . This watch will be a reminder（提醒物） for you. I hope today you have learned something   ______ . ”

I learned a lesson from my father: respect (尊重) time and     ______ be late. The watch is important to me, not because of its   ______ , but because of the lesson（教训） that I learned from it.