Question

When I was a little girl, my father loved to play catch (抛接球游戏) with me. I wasn’t very _______  , but he would encourage me. He was    _______  telling me “keep your eye on the ball” as I would not be able to   _______   even the easiest of throws.

As I got older, we didn’t play catch as much. If I had a problem, I would go to my father to ask for his   _______  . He would try to joke with me and say “keep your eye on the ball”. We would both  _______   because usually that advice did not apply to (适用于) the problem, but he would    _______   to make me smile.

My father became ill in 1995 when I was 23. As he suffered from a stroke (中风), he could not   _______ . There weren’t any more conversations. He could only mouth words, which were sometimes hard to understand. After a while, I seemed to be pretty good at   _______  his lips (嘴唇), even better than the nurses who were   _______   him.

During our last conversation, I was telling him about a problem I was having with my work. Once again, I could read his lips: “Keep your eye on the ball.” We both smiled.

That was the    ________  time I saw my father before he passed away. Since then, “keep your eye on the ball” has become a way for me to get rid of stress.

1.A.bad B.good C.happy D.interested

2.A.always B.never C.hardly D.rarely

3.A.touch B.catch C.break D.see

4.A.money B.information C.advice D.dream

5.A.cry B.wave C.laugh D.hit

6.A.try B.refuse C.forget D.avoid

7.A.see B.hear C.eat D.speak

8.A.reading B.finding C.checking D.wiping

9.A.looking at B.playing with C.caring for D.hearing from

10.A.nearest B.first C.hardest D.last

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