One day, we had a family dinner. While the adults were busy with their serious talk outside, I was left alone in the ____1____ to help my grandmother wash dishes. ____2____ my grandmother would tell me stories about her childhood.
Born just before WWII, my grandmother ____3____ an entirely different childhood lifestyle from mine. She did not have a chance to go to ____4____. Like in typical families, where boys were ____5____ much more than girls, my grandma had to stay at home to do ____6____. The only opportunity (机会) she could seize to ____7____ was when her brother was having Chinese ____8____ with the family tutor. She would sit quietly at the far end of the long dinner table, listening ____9____. This training taught her to read and write her Chinese upside down — a skill that has turned out to be quite ____10____, especially whenever we share the newspaper. On most weekends, my grandmother, a young girl then, and her brother would go to the ____11____. There, they would walk through deep water, sit down cross-legged underwater and hold their ____12____ while they watched all action going on around them. This is something I ____13____ — her ability to open her ____14____ underwater and still sit comfortably on the seabed.
My childhood is quite ____15____ compared with hers. I am ____16____ that I did not need to ____17____ the hardships like she did. I've never faced the problem of ____18____. I guess our different childhood background is what makes my grandmother such an amazing person to ____19____ to: her stories always make my history textbooks ____20____.