阅读下面短文,根据所读内容,在文章后1-10小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:每个空格只填1个单词。

Weekends are short. They are only two days out of a seven-day week. To make your weekends look longer, you need to plan it better. Here are some ideas.

★Get up at your usual time. The biggest mistake(错误) is to think that the weekend is a good chance(机会) for getting up late. So getting up early can make you feel the weekends are longer.

★Finish homework as quickly as possible. Nobody wants to do homework, but we have to do it. The earlier you do it at the weekend, the better you will feel. You can do homework from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.on Saturday morning. After doing your homework, you can plan your weekends well.

★Go out to enjoy weekends. Weekends feel longer if you get out and enjoy them. Think about what you like to do. Plan a sports activity, for example, playing football in the park. You can also plan to go to a museum or a zoo.

How to spend your short 1. ?

Some 2.

★ To make you feel weekends are 3. , you should get up at your 4. time though(虽然) weekend is a good chance to 5. up late.

★ The earlier you do it at the weekend, the better you will feel. So you should finish your homework as 6. as you can. Then you can plan your weekends after you 7. your homework.

8. a sports activity, for example, playing football in the 9. . You can plan to go to a museum too. It’s also a 10. idea to plan to go to a zoo. If so, you will feel weekends are longer.

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Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be in the dark. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the motion picture camera and 1200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.

Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age.

When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. They fired him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting his first patent(专利权) in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity.

Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He always worked 16 out of every 24 hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.

Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world.

1.How often did Edison make a new invention?

A. About every fourteen days B. About every seven days

C. About once a week D. About twice a week

2.The underlined word “fired” in the passage means “__________”

A. Gave somebody a job B. Set fire to somebody

C. Let somebody down D. Forced somebody to leave his job

3.Edison considered his deafness as______.

A. something bad B. a gift from god

C. a kind of ability D. a disadvantage

4.Which of the following sentence is NOT true according to the passage

A. Edison had only 8 hours rest each day after his deafness ?

B. Edison got his education mostly by self-teaching

C. Edison had his first job in 1869

D. Edison’s inventions greatly improved the quality of people’s life

5.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. The function of the electric light

B. Edison and his experiments

C. The importance of inventions

D. The whole life of Edison.

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