As a player, Lang Ping brought honour and     1     to her country. As a coach, she led the China’s women’s volleyball team to     2     at world championships and the Olympics. As a person, Lang Ping is loved by fans at home and     3     .

    1    amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to     2    sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together other than the    3    fit of the stones.

First, I had to think very    1    about which courses I wanted to take. The school adviser helped me choose the     2     ones: maths, English, chemistry, world history, and Chinese.

The other day I was showing the boys the weekly chemistry     1     when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over everywhere! The boys who had never come     2     anything like this before started jumping out of the windows. Sometimes I wonder how relevant chemistry is to these students, most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway.

I had to choose extra-curricular     1    , too. I tried to join the school football team, but the coach told me that I didn’t play well enough.     2    , I was unhappy, but I won’t     3    . I’ll find a way to     4     on my own so that I can make the team next year. I joined a     5     club instead. Every Wednesday, we work at a soup kitchen and hand out food to     6     people in the community.

I know I’ll have to study     7     as a senior high school student and get used to     8     responsible for a lot more. I’m a bit worried about keeping up with the other students in my     9     course, and it’ll be quite difficult to get used to all the homework. Still, I’m happy to be here. Studying hard isn’t always fun, but I’ll be well     10     for university or whatever else comes in the future.

    1    to be attracted to computer games and the online world... I think you should     2    . Why not..... Each statue has a different face,     3    that each one is a copy of a real soldier. The statues fill only one part of the emperor’s huge tomb, which still     4    .... However,     5    knew about the tomb or the terracotta statues until 1974, when some farmers discovered the tomb while they were digging a well.