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    How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the ___to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first ___drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a ____ that, in the past, would have started him ___again.For a few years we were afraid to bring it up ___this addiction would begin again.

“I had this little poem that I would ___to myself at least four to five times a day,”was Dad’s reply to my 18-year-old unasked question.“The words were a constant ___to me that things were  ____so hard that I could not deal with them,”Dad said. Then he ___the poem with me. The poem’s ____, yet profound words immediately became ___of my daily routine as well.

About a month after this  ____with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a ___of daily sayings of wisdom with one listed for each day of the year.

It has been my  ___that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own ____.

I  ___opened the book to April 17 to see  ____words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was ____when I looked at the page, and then  ____of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my cheek. There, on my birthday, was the very poem that had _____my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静的心) Prayer.

God grant me

The serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.

1.A.opportunity B.courage C.desire D.interest

2.A.gave up B.took up C.went on D.held on

3.A.company B.habit C.situation D.group

4.A.working B.disappearing C.smoking D.drinking

5.A.even though B.for fear that C.as far as D.as long as

6.A.recite B.write C.send D.introduce

7.A.challenge B.pressure C.warning D.reminder

8.A.never B.even C.always D.still

9.A.discussed B.shared C.analysed D.polished

10.A.extraordinary B.well-written C.simple D.moving

11.A.all B.that C.none D.part

12.A.conversation B.conflict C.argument D.lesson

13.A.number B.book C.pack D.calendar

14.A.habit B.practice C.experience D.advice

15.A.favorite B.birthday C.schedule D.vacations

16.A.hesitatingly B.precisely C.suddenly D.hurriedly

17.A.where B.whether C.what D.how

18.A.astonished B.delighted C.confused D.relieved

19.A.eyesight B.feelings C.tears D.looks

20.A.troubled B.attracted C.pleased D.benefited