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.