The greatest source of inspiration for me has always been my father. Though he’s been gone for 17 years, his
21 still resonate（产生共鸣）. He taught me how to run my own race in life. But the most inspiring thing he taught me was to
22 .
One incident is
23 in my mind. It happened when I was a teenager. My sister and I weren’t very fond of a so-called friend of 24 . Dad was a very generous man, and as he’d done with so many people, he’d given this fellow great help. But when he asked for a favor
25 , the guy didn’t deliver.
Dad’s outlook（人生观）on most things was “Live and let live.” In this case, however, his calmness
26 Terre and me, and we let him know it.
“How can you be nice to that man?” we said to him. “You’ve been so kind to him, and he’s not being kind back. Why would you want to give him the time of day again?”
My father shrugged（耸肩）and said to us, “I do not bend my back with
27 . ”
I didn’t get it at first, but over the years I came to understand the
28 . Holding a grudge（怨恨）doesn’t
29 the person you’re angry with, but it changes you. It makes you heavier and gives you more weight to drag around.
After my father died in 1991, a (n)
30 came from a fellow I’d had a quarrel with years before to
31 his sympathy. He wrote: “I thought I’d tell you how sorry I am
32 the loss of your father. I know he
33 the world to you. I just wanted to let you know that you are in my thoughts. ”
Much moved, I wrote back. I thanked him for his
34 . And then, because he’d
35 our disagreement, I recalled Dad’s inspiring words. “I am my father’s daughter,” I wrote. “And like him, I do not bend my back with yesterday.”
| 小题1: | | A．lectures | B．suggestions | C．lessons | D．pictures |
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| 小题2: | | A．forgive | B．persuade | C．forget | D．excuse |
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| 小题3: | | A．vital | B．obvious | C．visual | D．vivid |
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| 小题4: | | A．sister’s | B．mine | C．father's | D．mother’s |
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| 小题5: | | A．in return | B．in turn | C．by return | D．by turn |
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| 小题6: | | A．relaxed | B．moved | C．interrupted | D．bothered |
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| 小题7: | | A．anger | B．disappointment | C．worry | D．yesterday |
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| 小题8: | | A．reason | B．word | C．philosophy | D．sentence |
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| 小题9: | | A．change | B．hurt | C．upset | D．disturb |
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| 小题10: | | A．news | B．letter | C．message | D．information |
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| 小题11: | | A．explain | B．express | C．produce | D．present |
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| 小题13: | | A．showed | B．represented | C．equaled | D．meant |
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| 小题14: | | A．kindness | B．sympathy | C．understanding | D．consideration |
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| 小题15: | | A．referred | B．mentioned | C．reminded | D．retold |
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