题目内容：

阅读短文，根据短文内容和已给出的首字母，在空白处填入适当的单词。

Tom is a student of Hongqi Middle school. He u______(1) to be interested in comics about insects. He often borrowed some because he couldn’t a_______(2) to buy too many comics. Every day he wasted most of his time on these comics and was not patient with h _______(3) in his study.

One day Tom caught an insect at school and c_______(4) lots of trouble. To his s_______(5), the insect died half an hour later. That night, Tom had a bad dream. He was so t________(6) of it. Then he went to sleep with his bedroom light o________(7).

Tom knew it was the insect’s d________(8) that terrified him. Also, Tom found it was necessary for him to p______(9) attention to his daily studies. Only in this way could he forget that insect. In the e______(10), Tom made a decision to change himself.

Now Tom has become one of the best students in his class.