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My father had been a corporate sales trainer who taught presentation skills. He traveled across the world for_____and competed in tennis tournaments on the weekends. “Life is good,” he would say, with a twinkle in his eye.

However, everything ______during my sophomore year of high school. A sudden stroke left him with a severe physical disability and loss of _______.

One afternoon, I came home to find my dad watching a(n) _____video of us playing tennis. What used to be such a _________pleasure was now impossible. I   ____us on the screen, fascinated by that _________memory.

We watched in silence until I couldn’t hold in my   _____any longer. I found myself shaking and ________while the video played in the background. My heart broke for us both and __________for what we could no longer do together.

Moving his lips, my dad___wanted to say something, but he was powerless.   Although his movement was limited, he closed the gap between us and gave my hand a ___squeeze.

Later, on a family trip to Tahoe, my dad saw a group of people parasailing on the lake.

He and I had gone a few times_____his stroke, but years had passed since then. “You and me!” he managed to_____.

We floated high above the water, eyes fixed on the setting sun. Then, my dad looked at me with a familiar expression. “Life… good.”

After coming back home, my father worked ____to recover what he lost and regained a fair amount of his speech.

“Life is good.” Three simple words. But my dad injected true meaning into the phrase by refusing to let his sickness overshadow the days he had left.

1.
A.adventureB.workC.competitionD.pleasure
2.
A.happenedB.arrivedC.changedD.started
3.
A.speechB.confidenceC.sightD.energy
4.
A.oldB.shortC.liveD.online
5.
A.greatB.rareC.personalD.simple
6.
A.glanced overB.stared atC.looked intoD.smiled to
7.
A.sharedB.bittersweetC.distantD.virtual
8.
A.griefB.memoryC.angerD.excitement
9.
A.movingB.rockingC.dancingD.crying
10.
A.sankB.meltedC.achedD.skipped
11.
A.eventuallyB.especiallyC.clearlyD.merely
12.
A.comfortingB.strongC.quickD.friendly
13.
A.afterB.despiteC.throughD.before
14.
A.squeezeB.createC.sayD.achieve
15.
A.independentlyB.tirelesslyC.closelyD.properly

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