In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent, in fact, what I call 26 and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did 27 the water. Any kind of 28 ride seemed to give pleasure. 29 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water the way my father did. I liked being 30 the water, moving through it, 31 it all around me. I was not a strong 32 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my 33 . but I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and 34 those summer days with my father, who 35 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the 36 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go 37 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me 38 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk 39 he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his 40 . but my father always 41 and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s 42 .” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get 43 an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is 44 .” and I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but 45 , in that childhood, looks at us.
A.desire B.joy C.anger D.worry
A.avoid B.refuse C.praise D.love
A.On B.off C.by D.in
A.having B.leaving C.making D.getting
A.swimmer B.rider C.walker D.runner
A.hopes B.faiths C.rights D.fears
A.spending B.saving C.wasting D.ruining
A.should B.would C.had to D.ought to
A.next B.only C.other D.last
A.away from B.out of C.by D.inside
A.put up B.break down C.play with D.work out
A.the moment B.the first time C.while D.before
A.fishing net B.office things C.wooden chair D.lab equipment
A.stood up B.set out C.showed up D.lab equipment
A.fine B.strange C.terrible D.funny
A.the student B.the assistant C.myself D.himself
A.memory B.wealth C.experience D.practice
A.which B.who C.what D.whose