85岁老人的“毕业逆袭”，戳中无数追梦人（完形填空）
As we get older, many of us may believe that we’ve missed certain opportunities. But in reality, it’s never too late to ____1____ what you want. An 85-year-old named Roberto Fernandez is living ____2____ of that. He recently graduated from college, 50 years after he first ____3____ to focus on family and work. And now, he’s finally achieved his life goal.
Fernandez first ____4____ Florida International University (FIU) in 1972, but three years later, he decided to ____5____ from his studies to focus on running his own accounting firm. After years of hard work, raising children, and grandchildren, he decided it was finally time to ____6____ himself first. Fernandez asked his son — who is now part of the FIU faculty — to ____7____ whether he could still obtain his degree. ____8____, they discovered he only needed to complete one more class to get his ____9____.
When asked what ____10____ him to go back and do that one last class, Fernandez revealed, “It’s ____11____ I had in my mind all the time. I thought about it every day.” He added, “I decided to find out if I could do it. I found out that I could, and I did it.”
On Tuesday, Fernandez finally walked across the graduation stage with his diploma, to roaring ____12____ from his fellow students and teachers. “I’ve been wanting to have this for 50 years,” he said. “Finally I was ____13____ to. I’m very proud of myself for having done it.”