用方框中所给动词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

ride, teach, win, prefer, repair, love, improve, chat, discuss, reduce

1. The students ________ how to enter the writing competition yesterday.
2. My sister, Mary, ________ classical music to pop music.
3. I ________ eating ice cream on a hot day. It tastes good.
4. Look! The little boy ________ a bicycle over there.
5. Linda’s health ________ greatly since she started on this new diet.
6. Children should ________ how to respect others in their daily life.
7. Mrs. Wu was doing the dishes while her husband was ________ his bike.
8. When the new railway is completed in 2025, the time of the two cities ________ by half.
9. —Paul, where is Sam?
—He is in the garden. He ________ with Grandma.
10. At the 2014 Oscar ceremony, the film Twelve Years a Slave ________ an award for best picture.