Question

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 that____3____ 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.

Answer 1

【小题1】to/ towards
【小题2】weeping
【小题3】it
【小题4】what
【小题5】to be told
【小题6】but
【小题7】increasingly
【小题8】frightened
【小题9】an
【小题10】who

解析【小题1】考查介词：对…的态度：attitudes to/ towards
【小题2】考查现在分词做伴随状语：我发现女儿坐在床上在哭：weeping
【小题3】这里用it 代替后面的不定式to be eight
【小题4】考查感叹句：修饰a wonderful birthday用 what
【小题5】考查句型：It is +adj +不定式,因为有和tell之间是被动关系，用动名词的被动to be told
【小题6】表示转折关系：用but
【小题7】修饰动词：interests用副词increasingly
【小题8】make me frightened使我感到害怕，frightened是形容词修饰人
【小题9】ongoing是元音开头的单词用an修饰。
【小题10】who 引导定语从句修饰先行词：the friends and family members