2012年罗定市高二英语下学期期中检测题及答案(多校联考)
第二节 语法填空 (共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
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,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16~25的相应位置上。
Everyone has his own attitude____16_____
getting old.
The night before her eighth birthday,
I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ____17____ (
weep). &
ldquo;
I love being seven,&
rdquo;
she cried. &
ldquo;
I don&
rsquo;
t want to be eight!&
rdquo;
I held her in my arms and explained that____18____
was going to be even better to be eight than being seven.
I told her how much I loved her and ____19____
a wonderful birthday she was going to have.
Eventually she was comforted.
It&
rsquo;
s always strange ____20____ (
tell)
that you are a year older,
even when you aren&
rsquo;
t very old.
Now I&
rsquo;
m in my early 60
s,
and I don&
rsquo;
t always recognize the face in the mirror, _____21____
something has changed the way that I think.
The process of aging ____22____(
increasing)
interests and amazes me,
annoys and irritates me,
and sometimes still makes me ____23___(
frighten),
too,
but much,
much less than it used to.
There is ____24____
ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members____25____
have died before me.