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If it were up to me, I’d write this piece next week or even later. Let the dust settle a bit. But I ...
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If it were up to me, I’d write this piece next week or even later. Let the dust settle a bit. But I have my father’s insistent voice in my head: the story is now, so you write it now. No one wants to read last week’s news.
My father Michael was a journalist. He started at age 16 on his local paper, the Luton News, and after nine years there, he went on to a six-decade career that saw him write more than 40 biographies of Hollywood stars and spend a quarter-century presenting a weekly radio show.
From him I learned about deadlines and accuracy, and absorbed his rule about professional clothing, one he had been taught by his first boss. Even when he was working at home, my father would follow that rule: shirt and tie, every day.
There were other less obvious lessons. The first is about being manly. Driven and competitive, he wasn’t present for the birth of any of his three children, but he was the very model of being loving and faithful. My father never took me to the football or taught me to change a tyre. In a pub, he might manage some drinks, but his main focus would usually be the food menu. He was a model of a different kind of maleness.
But perhaps the biggest lesson I learned from him was about resilience. He got deep blows, losing both his wife and firstborn child, my sister Fiona, within two years of each other. And yet, somehow, he got back up again. He taught himself to cook and continued to dress neatly, picking out a bright jacket that ensured he stood out in a room. He would meet editors and write stories with the same hunger he had 65 years earlier. Younger colleagues keep using the same word about him: appealing.
I hope I learned his resilience, the way I learned about being a journalist. People keep telling me that my father was proud of me; and the truth is I was proud of him. Raised in a hard-up corner of wartime England, he went off to see the world—and he never stopped looking forward and upward, staring at the stars.
1.What has made the author write down the text so soon?
A. His father’s words motivated him to do so.
B. He wanted to settle down after the writing.
C. He wanted to write it before he forgot it.
D. It was the story he insisted on writing.
2.What was the author’s impression of his father?
A. He always managed to dress up following the fashion.
B. He sometimes had a hard time meeting the work deadline.
C. He trained the author to be manly and do the basic things.
D. He was competitive at work and remained a loving Dad.
3.What was the best lesson the author learned from his father?
A. The necessity of keeping good shape.
B. Quick recovery from suffering or blow.
C. The ability to get a content career.
D. The pride one takes in his/her parents.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Dad Left a Deep Impression on Me for His Work
B. Dad Proved Faithful and Loving for the Family
C. My Dad Showed How to Be a Journalist and a Man
D. I Learned to Recover Quickly after a Suffering
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