完形填空。      The wisdom my 77-year-old father has passed on to me came more through osmosis (潜移默化)
than lectures. My dad"s    1   shines through all my life.
     Old age hasn"t    2    him, mainly because he doesn"t think almost-80 is old. He had ever trained for a
charity (慈善)    3    across the Hudson River in New York. He wore his custom-fitted diving suit, but he
still got so    4  . We warmed him and wrapped him in a sleeping bag. "Oh,    5  , it isn"t that bad," he"d
say, "I am fine. " He always is. He did    6    the Hudson swim a month later.
     If you ask my father whether or not his life has been hard, he will say he is    7  . He means the kind of
happiness that comes from    8    a well-cooked family meal, taking a good long run or growing a perfect
tomato. Did I mention that he used to run marathons before his knee replacement surgery? He"s the one
who    9   me I could do it, too. "   10   can run a marathon," he said, "as long as you keep training. "
     My father was born in 1933. His childhood took a    11  at the beginning of World War Ⅱ : His
father joined the French Army and was   12   by the Germans and spent the war in a prison camp. My
dad and his mother and sister were shipped off to New Jersey to live with relatives. His mother   13  
from depression, and Dad went to boarding school in New England from the sixth grade on. Yet in all
Dad"s dinner table    14  , there have been many times when he turned them into   15   stories.
     After a family dinner the other night, Papa Bob advised us to try the skydiving   16 "Sixty-five seconds
of free falling," he said. "I   17   it. I should have been a paratrooper"
     He loves getting cards in the mail, and usually I"m   18 , so instead I call him on Father"s Day. But this
year I"ve   19   to be early for once. I want to let him know how much he   20   to me. Dad, thank you-for
all of it and mostly for your enduring faith that everything will be OK. (     )1. A. ability      
(     )2. A. comforted    
(     )3. A. swim          
(     )4. A. warm          
(     )5. A. come out      
(     )6. A. complete      
(     )7. A. ordinary      
(     )8. A. sharing      
(     )9. A. informed      
(     )10. A. Anyone      
(     )11. A. step        
(     )12. A. killed      
(     )13. A. resulted    
(     )14. A. experiences  
(     )15. A. foolish      
(     )16. A. chance      
(     )17. A. loved        
(     )18. A. late        
(     )19. A. refused      
(     )20. A. occurs       B. gentleness
B. slowed    
B. donation  
B. sad        
B. come back  
B. stop      
B. young      
B. containing
B. appointed  
B. Someone    
B. turn      
B. caught    
B. judged    
B. manners    
B. great      
B. adventure  
B. hated      
B. early      
B. permitted  
B. possesses   C. optimism      
C. punished      
C. volunteer    
C. calm          
C. come over    
C. delay        
C. disabled      
C. destroying    
C. insisted      
C. None          
C. sigh          
C. driven        
C. suffered      
C. stories      
C. short        
C. visit        
C. used          
C. noisy        
C. allowed      
C. means         D. humor        
D. accused      
D. activity    
D. cold        
D. come on      
D. celebrate    
D. lucky        
D. buying      
D. convinced    
D. Others      
D. dream        
D. fired        
D. separated    
D. news        
D. aggressive  
D. movement    
D. assessed    
D. quiet        
D. decided      
D. proves