(2013·高考湖南卷)—Have you heard about the recent election?—Sure，it________the only thing on the news for the last three days.

By the time he got up, I ______ for two hours in the factory.

 As the road to the airport is under reconstruction, we'd better ________ early to avoid the traffic jam.

— Tom, could you go to the supermarket with me?— I’d like to, but my homework ______ and I have to hand it in tomorrow.

. It is the first time that Chinese astronaut Wang Yue________as one of the volunteers for the Mars-500 test project .