When I was a little girl, my father loved to play the game of “catch the ball” with me. I wasn’t good at it
21 he didn’t mind at all. He was always telling me to
22 my eyes on the ball; otherwise I would not be able to
23 it when he threw it to me.
As I got older, we didn’t play the game as
24 as before. If I had a
25 , I would go to my father and
26 his advice. He would try to make a joke and say, “Keep your eyes on the ball.” We would both laugh
27 that advice was not usually able to
28 the problem, but he would just try to make me
29 .
My father became
30 in 1995 when I was 23. There were not any more conversations, as he was 31 from a terrible disease. He couldn’t
32 ; he could only move his
33 without making a sound, which was sometimes
34 to understand. I seemed to be
35 good at reading his lips after a while, even better than the nurses that were
36 him.
During one of our last
37 I was telling him about a difficulty I was
38 . Once again, I could read his lips. “Keep your eyes on the ball,” he said. We both smiled. That was the last time I saw my father
39 he passed away.
Sometimes now, all those years later when I get into a
40 situation, I just tell myself, “Keep your eyes on the ball.”
| 小题2: | | A．keep | B．leave | C．find | D．hold |
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| 小题3: | | A．watch | B．feel | C．move | D．catch |
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| 小题4: | | A．quick | B．much | C．many | D．little |
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| 小题5: | | A．surprise | B．wound | C．danger | D．problem |
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| 小题6: | | A．pay for | B．send for | C．look for | D．ask for |
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| 小题7: | | A．because | B．unless | C．if | D．when |
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| 小题8: | | A．settle | B．produce | C．drop | D．realize |
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| 小题9: | | A．worry | B．smile | C．study | D．talk |
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| 小题10: | | A．advice | B．ill | C．busy | D．wealthy |
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| 小题11: | | A．recovering | B．thinking | C．suffering | D．preventing |
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| 小题13: | | A．lips | B．face | C．hands | D．eyes |
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| 小题14: | | A．interesting | B．boring | C．easy | D．hard |
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| 小题15: | | A．quite | B．nearly | C．hardly | D．still |
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| 小题16: | | A．waiting for | B．thinking about | C．caring for | D．worrying about |
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| 小题17: | | A．impressions | B．experiences | C．games | D．conversations |
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| 小题18: | | A．looking through | B．going through | C．coming up | D．getting along |
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| 小题19: | | A．before | B．after | C．until | D．as |
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| 小题20: | | A．shocking | B．puzzling | C．frightening | D．troubling |
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