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第一部分 必修2 Unit 5 Ⅰ.完形填空 (2017福建) From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital (独奏会)．A recital __1__ I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers.Each year I __2__ ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”．And each year he'd shake his head, muttering (嘀咕)__3__ about building selfconfidence and working towards a __4__. So it was with really great __5__ that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and __6__ my 68yearold father sweating in his shirt __7__ 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 couldn't __8__ lessons.He could have gone on regretting it, __9__ too many of us do.But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn't __10__ there.When he retired three years ago, he __11__ his church music director to take him as a student. For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he __12__ stared down at his fingers.Has he forgotten the __13__ ？I worried, remembering those split seconds __14__ ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would __15__.But then came the beautiful melody (旋律)，from the __16__ fingers that once baited (装饵于) my fishing lines.And I __17__ he had been doing what music teachers always stress：__18__ the music and pretend the others aren't there. | 
