A girl who has a gift for drawing

I went to an exhibition last month,     1     I admired a lot of wonderful paintings. Mary,     2    drawings were shown at the exhibition, is a model student     3    is often praised for her good work at school. As soon as we got into the exhibition hall     4     the paintings were on show, our eyes were caught by a very large picture     5    was hung on the wall in front of us. The horse     6    was drawn in the picture was exactly like a real horse. The man     7    was riding on it looked like a living man. It was the best picture     8     I had ever seen, and I should say Mary is the best young painter     9    I have ever heard of. However, you will be quite mistaken if you think that Mary was born a good painter. One of her teachers told me that it had taken Mary thousands of hours to learn and practise drawing before she became the best young painter     10    has ever been heard of in her hometown. But if you say that she has learned to be so good at drawing only by working hard at it, I will certainly agree with you.