题目内容

阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答案卷上。

Everyone has his own attitude 1. getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ___2.____ (weep). “I love being seven,” she cried. “I don’t want to be eight!” I held her in my arms and explained that3. was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and 4. a wonderful birthday she was going to have. Eventually she was comforted. It’s always strange ____5.____ (tell) that you are a year older, even when you aren’t very old. Now I’m in my early 60s, and I don’t always recognize the face in the mirror, _____6.___ something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging ____7._ (increasing) interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me ____8.__(frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is ___9.____ ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members___10.____ have died before me.

 

1.to/towards

2.weeping

3.it

4.what

5.to be told

6.but

7.increasingly

8.frightened

9.an

10.who

【解析】

试题分析:本文是一篇议论文。主要是以作者女儿不想从17岁跨到18岁为导入,表达不同的人对变老的看法和态度各不相同。而随着年龄的增长,作者对变老的看法也逐渐发生了改变。他慢慢发现,当他的亲朋好友在他之前去世时,都会有一种不间断的悲伤。

1. attitude to/towards…每个人都有他自己对变老的态度。

2.

3.

4.

5. be told考查非谓语动词。句子逻辑主语是后面的you,和tell是被动关系,所以填to be told。被告知你又大了一岁总是一件很奇怪的事,即使你还并不是很老。

6.

7.

8. 考查形容词辨析。考查make sb + adj.的形式,译为使我感到害怕。

9. sadness可知名词前缺一个冠词an。此处是说随着作者年龄的增长,当他的亲朋好友在他之前去世时,都会有一种不间断的悲伤。

10. 考查定语从句。先行词是friends和family members都是人,故填who,当亲朋好友在他之前去世时,都会有一种不间断的悲伤。

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