My heart story started when I was 13 years old. My father died of a heart attack while on a golf course at the young age of 45. Heart disease 41 in my family. Like my father, I have extremely high lipid（脂质）levels and the good news is that today there are some 42 that can significantly reduce my lipid levels to 43 normal ranges.
In 2011, when I was 45 and my own son was 13, history 44 itself. While skating with my son, I began to 45 an “uncomfortable feeling”. I didn’t think it was heart-related. When we 46 my wife gave me aspirin and we decided to go and see my 47 the next day because my symptoms had 48 decreased. My doctor sent us straight 49 the hospital where I had my heart examined. Tests 50 that I had trouble with my heart. After nine days at the hospital and a surgery, I went home on my 46th birthday with a 51 life.
52 there was no evidence of any heart damage at all. My doctor told me that I must have been doing 53 pretty good before my heart attack because patients didn’t usually 54 the kind of blockage（堵塞物）I had, or they met 55 damage to the heart. I told them that I had been 56 walking for seven years before my heart attack, walking up to 20 miles a week. Several people in the medical profession told me that walking 57 my life!
This October, I will be walking at the Heart and Stroke Walk in Tacoma. Every step is a 58 that life is fragile and can be taken from us at any moment. My 59 to you is very simple: 60 you have heart disease in your family, there is something you can do about it.
41. A. affects B. runs C. joins D. attacks
42. A. measures B. ways C. ideas D. drugs
43. A. near B. below C. above D. with
44. A. covers B. repeats C. remains D. controls
45. A. express B. avoid C. experience D. expand
46. A. set out B. calmed down C. got back D. got away
47. A. doctor B. friend C. mother D. son
48. A. probably B. completely C. considerably D. practically
49. A. to B. for C. in D. at
50. A. exposed B. declared C. implied D. showed
51. A. special B. common C. colorful D. new
52. A. Personally B. Amazingly C. Naturally D. Eventually
53. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything
54. A. survive B. abandon C. understand D. suffer
55. A. permanent B. slight C. significant D. minor
56. A. referring to B. seeking for C. insisting on D. wondering at
57. A. saved B. improved C. treated D. enriched
58. A. sign B. reminder C. dream D. battle
59. A. plan B. course C. thought D. message
60. A. unless B. because C. whether D. if