完形填空 Istill remember father spent plenty

         I  still remember father spent plenty of time teaching me how to
pronounce a word, how to understand some thing that I saw for the first
 time and how to be polite to others. And I will never   1  one sentence
my father used to say to me, "I love you, son. Say you love me, son. "  
Naturally ,I would scream, "I love you, Dad. " When I was growing up,
I found that I had little in  2 with my father gradually.Sometimes we often
argued about something sharply and then the argument changed into a
quarrel(争吵). I knew there was a gap between us. I didn't  3  hearing
the words "I love you" from my father the last time. To tell you the truth,
I couldn't honestly remember when I had last said those words to him ,
either.
       Now father was in hospital. The doctor said it was  4 and he needed
an operation at once,  5 he wasn't sure whether my father was able to
survive(幸免,经受得住)it. Everything in my childhood   6  in my mind.
Then I called and said, " Dad ,I love you ! "
       There was a  7  at the other end and he replied coldly , " Well ,
I  love  you , too ! "
       I cried and said, " Dad, I know you love me, and when you are   8   ,
1 know you will say what you want to say. "
       Fifteen minuets later my mother called and nervously  asked , " Paul,
is  everything  OK? "
       A few weeks later, I was working when I received my father's call,"
Paul, I love you. "  I was so    9    that my tears rolled down my cheeks.
Perhaps both of us   10  that this special moment had taken our relationship
to a   new level.
        A short while after this special moment, my father finally narrowly
escaped death following the heart opera tion. I can't   11   that if I did not
take the first   12  and Dad did not survive the surgery, what kind of life I 
 would lead now.

B. practice   
B. manner     
B. remember   
B. serious    
B. because    
B. opened     
B. surprise   
B. ready      
B. bored      
B. realized   
B. infer      
B. step