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"How did you do it, Dad?  How have you ___l___not to take a drink for almost 20 years?" It took me almost 20 years to have the   2   to even ask my father this very   3   question.      When Dad first   4   drinking,the whole family was on pins and needles 5   he got into a situation that,in the past,would have started him drinking again. For a few years we were   6  to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.       "I had this little   7   that I would recite to myself   8   four to five times a day" was Dad's   9  to my 18-year-old unasked question. "The  10  were an instant relief and constant reminder to me that things were never so 11 that I could not handle them, " Dad said. And then he 12 the poem with me. The poem's simple, yet profound(深奥的)  words    13   became part of my daily routine as well.       About a month after this talk with my father, 14 a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of affirnations(断言) with one affirmation listed for each 15  of the year.       I   16 opened the book to the page of my birthday to see what words of wisdom this book had in store for me. 17 of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my face. There , on my birthday , was the   18 poem that had helped my   19  for all these years! It is called The Serenity Prayer.      God, give me the Serenity  (平静) to accept the things  I cannot change,the Courage to  20   the things l can,and the Wisdom to know the difference.
(     )1.A. failed       (     )2.A. courage       (     )3.A. interesting   (     )4.A. started       (     )5.A. every time   (     )6.A. anxious       (     )7.A. book         (     )8.A. at least     (     )9.A. comment       (     )10.A. words       (     )11.A. strange     (     )12.A. shared       (     )13.A. surprisingly (     )14.A. brought     (     )15.A. hour         (     )16.A. easily       (     )17.A. Tears       (     )18.A. correct     (     )19.A. mother       (     )20.A. believe	B. succeeded   B. ability     B. personal     B. enjoyed     B. all time     B. glad         B. passage     B. at most     B. praise       B. phrases     B. different   B. talked       B.  immediately B. bought       B. week         B. hurriedly   B. Smiles       B. impossible   B. father       B. benefit	C. managed       C. wisdom         C. hard           C. minded         C. next time     C. afraid         C. poem           C. at first       C. contribution   C. letters       C. simple         C. read           C. increasingly   C. received       C. month         C. sadly         C. Sweat         C. original       C. friend         C. change	D. tried       D. confidence   D. unanswered   D. stopped     D. last time   D. eager       D. list         D. at last     D. reply       D. sentences   D. tough       D. impressed   D. regularly   D. accepted     D. day         D. peacefully   D. Satisfaction D. exact       D. classmate   D. do

Answer 1

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