Question

Everyone has his own attitude 61 getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed 62 (weep).“I love being seven,”she cried.“I don’t want to be eight!”I held her in my arms and explained that 63 was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and 64 a wonderful birthday she was going to have. 65 (eventual) she was comforted. It’s always strange 66 (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, 67 something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging increasingly interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me 68 (frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is 69 ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members 70 have died before me.

Answer 1

1.towards/to

2.weeping

3.it

4.what

5.Eventually

6.to be told

7.but

8.frightened

9.an

10.who

【解析】

试题解析：本文讲述作者对于变老的态度。

1. an antitude to/toward… 对…有态度，根据句意是每个人都对变老有自己的态度，故填towards/to；

2. sb.doing sth.发现某人正在干某事，根据句意是我发现女儿坐在床上正在哭，故填weeping

3. was going to be even better to be eight than being seven.后半部分to be eight than being seven.应是真正的主语，因此用it做形式主语，故填 it

4.

5. was comforted 要修饰动词，只有用副词，故要将eventual 变为副词形式，故填Eventually

6. always strange 66 (tell) that you are a year older 应是被告知长大了一岁，另固定句型it is…to do …故将to do变为to be done表示被动，故填to be told

7. has changed the way that I think 一些事改变了我的想法，可知前文与后文应是转折关系，应用转折连词，故填but

8. still makes me 68 (frighten)使我感到惊恐，此处应用形容词，故将动词frighten变为形容词，故填frightened

9. is 69 ongoing sadness 用在ongoing前面修饰sadness，应用an，故填an

10. members 70 have died before me 后句做family members的定语从句，在从句中做主语，表示…的人，故填who

考点：考查固定短语，定语从句，词形变换等