A few days ago, my sister Liz and I talked about Dad, and we decided to get him a little something for Father's Day. We talked about the times when we were
_______ up and how Mom and Dad used to play the ‘good cop, bad cop’ thing on us. Dad has been a person of few words since we were
_______. He raised us more by
_______ than anything else. When he spoke, though we listened, he was always mysterious and difficult to understand. There was always a(n)
_______meaning that I never got, but Liz always
_______to decipher (破解) him. By the time I got to high school, I had wanted a skateboard and I
_______I was too old to ask money from my parents, so I worked at a burger joint (美式汉堡店). One day, I was really angry about annoying burgers. I came home huffing and puffing (气喘吁吁). Dad saw me and asked me what was the
_______. I told him that I was fed up with annoying burgers. He said that we all have to start somewhere, that we may not know it now, but the skills we learn even in a burger joint might come in handy
_______in life, ‘Who knows, you might end up having to run a
_______or even own one when you grow up,’ said Dad. He
________me down and I kept what he said in mind, even though I really didn’t agree with it.
A couple of years later, when I got to college, I worked in a restaurant. During one of the really
________days that we had, we were short on kitchen staff. Our customers were getting impatient and the
________were getting delayed. We were sure any minute something terrible would
________out. I couldn’t stand the
________ any more, so I rolled up my sleeves, got myself a hair net and helped out in the hot kitchen. We caught up with the orders
________. The owner saw what I did and called me over around
________ time. He said that he was very
________ He raised my salary and made me the assistant manager even though I could only go part-time. That was
________ I realized that what my dad said to me all those years before was absolutely true.
I’ve never forgotten what my dad said that day. And whenever I have to do something that requires new skills, no matter how insignificant or
________ it seems, I have a new perspective (看法) that it might really help me later on or even right now and I just don’t know it. Experience is everything and it
________ a lot when you take lessons from it. That’s my life’s philosophy.
1.A.getting | B.going | C.growing | D.coming |
2.A.schoolboys | B.kids | C.adults | D.graduates |
3.A.instruction | B.example | C.order | D.inspiration |
4.A.obvious | B.clear | C.reasonable | D.hidden |
5.A.failed | B.refused | C.tried | D.managed |
6.A.imagined | B.promised | C.believed | D.suggested |
7.A.experience | B.matter | C.event | D.accident |
8.A.later | B.sooner | C.latter | D.late |
9.A.restaurant | B.hospital | C.school | D.plant |
10.A.calmed | B.wrote | C.let | D.put |
11.A.exciting | B.worrying | C.busy | D.happy |
12.A.meetings | B.parties | C.menus | D.orders |
13.14.A.quarrel | B.laziness | C.relaxation | D.tension |
15.A.eventually | B.regularly | C.obviously | D.thankfully |
16.A.breakfast | B.lunch | C.opening | D.closing |
17.A.influenced | B.interested | C.inspired | D.impressed |
18.A.when | B.why | C.whether | D.where |
19.A.important | B.impressive | C.interesting | D.small |
20.A.works | B.counts | C.shows | D.studies |