Our school has a music club which meets every Thursday after class, and forty students joined it this year. Some of them play an instrument, while others only sing. Our teacher, Mr. Lin, is a real (11) who played in a big band for ten years before he came to our school. (12), I was so afraid of singing in front of other people that my face turned red every time I opened my mouth. (13) He asked me to sing with two friends first, so that I could get used to the stage. Now I stand in the front row. Next month we will give a show for our parents, (14) we practice twice a week.
My cousin Kevin is a young artist. He started to draw when he was five, and now he takes an art class every Saturday morning. His teacher, (15) has painted for thirty years, always tells him to look carefully before he picks up a brush. Last month Kevin decided to paint the beach near his house, so he went there every day and watched the sea for hours. (16) Because of this, he made ten small pictures, but none of them felt right to him. (17), after three weeks of hard work, he finished a big (18) in which the water looks so real. His teacher put it near the school entrance so that everyone can view it.