As a player, Lang Ping brought     1     to her country. As a coach, she led the China women’s volleyball team to medals at world championships and the Olympics. As a person, Lang Ping is loved by fans     2    . When the Chinese team was preparing for the 2015 World Cup, her determination was tested. The team that Lang Ping had built     3    . One of the best players had been injured, and the team captain had to leave because of heart problems. Losing two important players was a big challenge, but Lang Ping did not     4    . She had faced difficulties before, and she knew that her young players could win if they worked together as a team. Two weeks later, they were     5     ! Then in 2016, Lang Ping led her volleyball team to Olympic gold in Brazil.

Come and see the Terracotta Army: more than 8, 000 statues were made in the third century BC to     1     of the Chinese Emperor Qinshihuang! Each statue has a different face, leading researchers to believe that each one is a copy of     2    . The statues fill only one part of the emperor’s huge tomb, which still has not     3     . More than 700, 000 people worked for nearly 40 years to build this tomb. However, no one     4     knew about the tomb or the terracotta statues until 1974, when some farmers discovered the tomb while they were     5     .

After graduating in 1953, he worked as a researcher. Yuan Longping realised that larger fields were not the solution. Instead, farmers needed to b    1     yields in the fields they had. How this could be done was a challenging question at the time. Yuan was c    2       that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. A hybrid is a cross between two or more varieties of a species. One c    3     of hybrids is that they usually a    4     a higher yield than c    5     crops. However, whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate. The common a    6       then was that it could not be done. Through i    7     effort, Yuan o    8     enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid enabled farmers to e    9     their o    10     greatly.

…However, whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate. The common     1     then was that it could not be done. Through     2     effort, Yuan overcame enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that could be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid     3     farmers to expand their output greatly.

As a player, Lang Ping     1    . As a coach, she led the China women’s volleyball team     2     and the Olympics. As a person, Lang Ping     3    . When the Chinese team was preparing for the 2015 World Cup, her determination was tested.

Jordan says that     4    . “I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”     5    . In life, Jordan has learnt to share his success with others. The Boys and Girls Club which he started in Chicago has been helping young people since 1996.

I recommend that you talk to your friend about his behavior. It     1     teenagers of your generation to     2     computer games and the online world. But spending too much time online is unhealthy and     3    focus on other things in life. Some students even     4     the internet and cannot     5    school and family life. I think you should encourage your friend to try a new hobbies. Why not discuss the problem together? I’m sure he will listen to you, since you are his good friend.

Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zhuhai, China, is     1     in the world. Here you can walk under the Whale Shark Aquarium…Watching the dolphin and sea lion shows     2    …The park has more rides than you can imagine: join a water fight against pirates,     3     by an exciting roller coaster, or get wet in one of the water rides!