All through high school, I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(play) football, basketball, and soccer, and I was on the track team. But boxing was the sport that I liked {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (much) because It's more {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(challenge)and exciting to me. I found that I enjoyed the Anil of the one-on-one competition. I also liked the feet that it was up to me {#blank#}4{#/blank#} I won or lost – that I was the determining factor. I think I've always been a competitor, and winning would give me {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (satisfy) and a good feeling about myself. I wanted to win every time.

    I started training with Bruce who got me into the boxing. With Bruce {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (act) as my boxing coach, friend, mentor, and a father figure for me {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(look) up to, I learned that boxing is a sweet science{#blank#}8{#/blank#}I could use my brain as well as my strength and size. I used my ability to focus under pressure. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (train) for several years, I went from being a street fighter {#blank#}10{#/blank#}a gold medal-winning Olympic champion.

—Yes, she doesn't even have enough {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to walk upstairs.

    She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is looking forward to challenge of her new A-level course. But unlike her school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (rest). Instead, she is earning $6,500 a day as {#blank#}2{#/blank#} model in New York.

    Sarah {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(tell) that she could be Britain's new supermodel, earning a million dollars in the new year. Her father Peter, 44, wants her to give up school to model full-time. But Sarah, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}has taken part in shows along with top models, wants {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(prove) that. She has brains as well as beauty. She is determined to carry on with her {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(educate).

    She has turned down several {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies. After school she plans to take a year off to model full-time before going to university to get a degree {#blank#}8{#/blank#} engineering or architecture.

    Sarah says, “My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(come) first. I don't want to get too absorbed in modeling. It is {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don't want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more.”

    I wonder if it's because I haven't been able to be outdoor for so long {#blank#}1{#/blank#}I've grown so crazy about very everything {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (do) with nature. I can well remember that there was{#blank#}3{#/blank#} time when a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(change) since I was here.

    One evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake{#blank#}5{#/blank#} purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn't dare open a window. Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. I didn't go downstairs {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the window had to be shut.

    Sadly …I am only able to look at nature {#blank#}8{#/blank#} dirty curtains hanging before very dusty windows. It's no pleasure {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (look) through these any longer because nature is one thing that really must {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (experience).