When I ______to take part in the sport, I felt very surprised because I had never done this before. 

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature _____ to Mo Yan, Chinese writer ,whose novel Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987.

When asked about the secret about staying young, he said that a balanced diet __________ with exercise was the recipe for a healthy life.

 When I was in Spain last summer, I ______ quite a lot of Spanish.

Our head teacher’s playing the violin _______ our classroom on the New Year’s Party.