Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to
make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given
word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other
blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
How to Become a Morning
Person?
You
have grand ambitions: to start a business, to write a book. But chances are you
work long hours, or household responsibilities consume your days. By the time
you finish all you have to do, you will have had no energy {#blank#}1{#/blank#}anything you want to do beyond
turning on the TV.
Yet
some busy people do make time for their priorities. The secret is giving the
most attention to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}at the
very beginning of a day. They get up earlier than they have to. Morning by
morning, they make progress on something {#blank#}3{#/blank#}matters.
It's
not fun to force yourself out of bed, but these early hours are often the best
time to do things for yourself. With a little schedule reorganization, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(become) a morning person is more
doable than you think.
I
first learned that mornings {#blank#}5{#/blank#}be
transformational years ago, when I was studying a busy lawyer's schedule. She
wanted to spend more time with her son, but she had little control over when
she left work. This state of affairs kept her sad {#blank#}6{#/blank#}she realized she and her son were
both early risers and the morning time could be made full use of. After
thinking it through, the lawyer decided to get up even earlier. Then, when the
boy stepped into the dining room, she {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(finish) preparing a rich breakfast
so they two could enjoy the meal to the fullest together.
Mornings
are also great for focused thinking. Getup an hour earlier, and you can knock
out your most important task of the day. Or you can spare some time for those
creative desires {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(bury) deep
in your heart and hard to nurture.
But
many will argue：I'm not a morning person!
The fact is that there are not so many true night owls. When most people take
an honest look at {#blank#}9{#/blank#}they're
spending the hours before bed, they'll find they have wasted much time on the
TV programs they don't mean {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(watch).
Also, they often browse through photos on social media of people they didn't
like in high school anyway.
A
better approach is to sleep earlier, rise earlier and turn unproductive evening
hours into productive morning hours.
