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2014年 (福建卷) 第二节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分) [2014·福建卷] 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏会). A recital __36__I had to practise a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I __37__ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year hed shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) __38__about building selfconfidence and working towards a __39__． So it was with really great__40__that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and __41__my 68yearold father sweating in his shirt __42__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 couldnt __43__lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, __44__too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasnt __45__there. When he retired three years ago, he __46__ his church music director to take him as a student. For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he __47__stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the __48__？ I worried, remembering those split seconds__49__ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would __50__. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the __51__fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I__52__he had been doing what music teachers always stress：__53__the music and pretend the others arent there. “Im __54__of him for starting something new at his age，” I said to my son Jeff. “Yeah, and doing it so__55__，” 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. 36．A.reflected B．explained C．meant D．proved 37．A.would B．could C．might D．should 38．A.nothing B．everything C．anything D．something 39．A.goal B．stage C．journey D．chance 40．A.trouble B．satisfaction C．strength D．disappointmen