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Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are 4 words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.

I began to play the piano at the age of eight. From then on, there was one thing I was afraid of every year: the piano recital(独奏演唱会). A recital   36  I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I would ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he would shake his head, muttering(嘀咕) something about building self-confidence and working toward a   37  .

So it was with really great  38  that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and

39   my 68-year-old father sweating in his shirt before 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   40  lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, as too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn’t

41   there. When he retired three years ago, he   42  his church music director to take him as a student.

For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he   43  stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the notes? I worried, remembering those split seconds  44  ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would   45  . But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the   46  fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I realized he had been doing what music teachers always stress: