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话题：父亲的教育，受益终生
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(2014·福建卷)From my second grade on，there was one event I feared every year：the piano recital(独奏会)．A recital__1__I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers.Each year I__2__ask my father if I could skip the recital“just this once”．And each year he'd shake his head，muttering(嘀咕)__3__about building selfconfidence and working towards a__4__.
So it was with really great__5__that I stood in church one recent Sunday，video camera in hand，and__6__my 68yearold 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 30plus years ago.
