阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A couple of days ago, my sister Liz and I spoke about Dad, and we decided to get him a little something together for Father's Day. We talked about the times when we were 36 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 37 . He raised us more by 38 than anything else. When he spoke, though, we listened, and he was always mysterious and difficult to understand. There was always a(n) 39 meaning that I never got, but Liz always 40 to decipher(破解) him. By the time I got to high school, I had wanted a whole bunch of skateboard gear(装备) and I 41 I was too old to ask money from my parents so I worked at a burger joint. 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 42 . I told him that I was fed up with annoying burgers. He said that we all have to 43 somewhere, that we may
