20. A. cleverness      B. faith        C. courage        D. devotion

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My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling  1  , but I always knew he was   2  . He never criticized us, but used   3   to bring out our best. He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die.”  I   4   as a child I said something   5   about somebody, and my father said, “  6   time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best   7   people, I would get the best   8  . From then on I’ve always tried to   9   the principle in my life and later in running my company.

    Dad’s also always been very  10  . At 15, I started a magazine. It was  11   a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a  12  :stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.

    I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision,  13   any good father would.  When he realized I had made up my mind,  he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad  14   me to go into law.  And I’ve  15  regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist,  16   I didn’t pursue my  17  . You know what you want. Go fulfill it.”

    As  18  turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national  19

for young people in the U.K.  My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad  20   me.

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