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| My wife and I had just finished the 150－mile trip home from our daughter's college.It was the first time in our liv  es that we would _1_ for any length of time.We wondered how other people had _2_ it.Later in bed, I _3_ the time I started college.My father had driven me, too.My mother had to stay home to keep the _4_from getting into the crops.I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to _5_ college. The truck was slow, and I was glad.I didn't want to get to the city _6_.I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn't say a word.But I knew he was going to make a little _7_.He finally said, "I never went to college and _8_of your brothers did.I can't say don't do this or that, because everything is _9_and I don't know what is going to come up, but I think things will 10 .When you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard."I knew that so  on I would be 11 in the big town and I would be12 the life home. Then my father 13 the Bible (圣经) that he had read so often.I knew that he would miss it but I must 14 it.He just said, "This can help you 15 you will let it." When I finished school I took the Bible 16 to my father.But he said he wanted me to 17 it. Now, too late, I remember.It would have been so 18 to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car.But I didn't.My father could give me only a Bible, but I don't really believe now that I gave her half as 19 as my father gave me.So the next morning I 20 up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note."This can help you, " I said, "if you will let it." | ||||
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