Teenage diver Quan Hongchan set the women’s 10-meter platform final alight on Thursday when she scored perfect 10s in three of her five dives to win the gold medal.

Snacks, game machines and medical services have ____1____ into the family of Quan Hongchan, the 14-year-old gold medalist at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, after the story of the ____2____ diver striving to win the Games to support her low-income family and earn money for the ____3____ of her sick mother deeply touched Chinese people.

As the youngest athlete among China’s delegation, Quan ____4____ audiences around the world with her ____5____ performance in the women’s 10-meter platform.

The baby-faced Quan, the latest prodigy of China’s diving training system, ____6____ made a ripple（浪波，水花）in the water during her final's performance and tallied 466.2 points to ____7____ the field.

Quan ____8____ became one of the most-discussed Olympic athletes on Chinese social media and a “sweetheart” of many people not only for the spiky-haired snack-loving girl’s likeable persona, but also for her maturity and good heart after it ____9____ that she was supporting a low-income family of seven.

Quan said she wanted to “____10____ a lot of money” to cure her mom's disease and visit an amusement park, which she has never been to.

Quan’s efforts have ____11____ and her dream is coming true.

A hospital in her hometown Zhanjiang, Guangdong province announced that it would provide a full range of ____12____ services for her mother.

A hospital official said they were ____13____ of the Olympic champion and were more than willing to ____14____ her mother.

Several amusement parks, zoos and resorts said they would offer lifetime free ____15____ for Quan and her family.

A local businessman even offered 200,000 yuan in cash to Quan’s father, but was declined.

Over past three days after Quan’s winning, her family has received floods of guests coming around to offer congratulations, many sending boxes of the snacks and game machines that Quan likes.

“She ____16____ all the glory and gifts,” said one netizen on Sina Weibo.

Former men’s Olympic champion gymnast Li Xiaopeng ____17____ on Weibo that “I might make a bigger splash than her dives ____18____ a coin in a cup of water.”

The passion for the young champion’s family, however, has appeared to become overly heated after some fans and internet ____19____ tracked down to her village home causing local traffic chaos.

Reports claimed some live-streamers even intended to climb up the trees planted at her house and take a jackfruit as souvenir.

A ____20____ from Quan’s village said there were people coming to the village for live streaming even after midnight or in the rain.

A

Schools are being urged to go back to “chalk and talk” teaching that was once widely used in Britain—in order to reproduce the success the traditional methods now have in China.

Education Minister Nick Gibb said having a teacher speak to the class as a whole from the front was much more effective than children working on their own—the most important method in schools over the past 40 years.

Researchers have found that children in China achieve marks in maths up to 30 per cent higher than English pupils of the same age.

In “whole class” teaching, which was common in this country until the 1950s, the teacher instructs all the pupils together by using a blackboard, while testing the children with questions.

But progressive educationalists argued this was too strict, and instead promoted the “child-centered” approach that has been common in primary schools since then. Under this system, pupils are encouraged to “discover” knowledge by themselves, working at their own speed or in small groups, with the teacher offering them support.

Mr. Gibb told The Mail on Sunday: “I would like to see schools across the country use whole class teaching methods, particularly in maths and science. Research shows it is much more effective than other methods that concentrate more on personalized learning.”

Mr. Gibb said: “In Shanghai primary schools, whole class teaching with all pupils taking part in ‘question and answer’ activities is key to their success. All their pupils are taught the same curriculum (课程) and all are expected to reach the same high standard.”

Mr. Gibb’s comments have been backed by recent research, which concluded that the success of pupils in the Far East is largely down to teaching methods.

Researchers also used video to analyze what was going on in lessons and found that in the Chinese classrooms—where pupils sit in rows of desks facing the front—“whole class interaction” was being used 72 per cent of the time, compared with only 24 per cent in England. By contrast, the classes in England, where pupils often sit in groups, spent nearly half—47 percent—of their time in “individual or group work”, compared with 28 per cent in China. The research concluded: “Effective teachers spent longer time on interacting with the whole class rather than with individuals/groups or leaving pupils to independent seatwork.”

B

“Panopticon” is a place in which everything is in full view of others.

A recent New York Times “House and Home” article featured the story of a man who lives in a glass house. Every wall in his home is transparent; he has no walls to hide behind, not even in the bathroom. Of course, he lives in a remote area where he doesn't exactly have neighbors looking in and watching his every move. But he has chosen to live without any physical privacy in a home that allows every action to be seen. He has created his own panopticon of sorts.

The term panopticon was coined by Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century when he was describing an idea for how prisons should be designed. The prisoners’ cells would be placed in a circle with a guard tower in the middle. All walls facing the center of the circle would be glass. In that way, every prisoner’s cell would be in full view of the guards. The prisoners could do nothing unobserved, but the prisoners would not be able to see the guard tower. They would know they were being watched-or rather, they would know that they could be being watched－but because they could not see the observer, they would never know when the guard was actually monitoring their actions.

Similarly, it is common that people behave differently when they know they are being watched. We act differently when we know someone is looking; we act differently when we think someone else might be looking. In these situations, we are less likely to be ourselves; instead, we will act the way we think we should act when we are being observed by others.

In our wired society,  many talk of the panopticon as a metaphor （隐喻） for the future. But in many ways, the panopticon is already here. Monitoring cameras are everywhere, and we often don't even know our actions are being recorded. In addition, we leave a record of everything we do online. And most of us have no idea just how much information about us has been recorded and how much data is available to various sources. We can do little to stop the information gathering and exchange and can only hope to be able to control the damage if something goes wrong.

C

We see a certain face, and without knowing why, our hearts begin to beat faster. We may even start to feel nervous and begin to sweat. What's going on here? Our body is responding to a face that our brain automatically has judged to be attractive.

We might think that the idea of facial attractiveness is a relatively new phenomenon, reflected by our growing passion for cosmetics and famous people. In fact, the origins of facial beauty appear to lie in the biological necessity to survive and reproduce (生育). What we now call beauty was originally our way of determining who was a potential mate. With limited food resources and ever-present dangers, our earliest ancestors found it important to choose a mate who would not only pass on his/her genes to future generations, but also survive childbirth and live long enough to be able to provide for the family. The face conveys information about age, health, and fertility (生育能力), and the better the signals, the more "attractive" a person was to potential mates.

Research by Gillian Rhodes at the University of Western Australia has found that we prefer certain face types since birth. This suggests that culture has a very limited effect on what we judge to be a beautiful face and that certain characteristics are universally considered more attractive than others. A woman's face should be symmetrical (对称的) with clear skin, a small nose, a narrow jaw and slim eyebrows, but full, well-defined lips and cheeks, and large eyes. An attractive male face also should exhibit many of these features.

However, before we rush to find the nearest plastic surgeon to have our eyes widened, we should be aware that studies are beginning to show that physical features can be of secondary importance. Researchers in Scotland have discovered that women found men who were being smiled at other women to be more attractive though the men lacked the typical characteristics of an attractive face. The opposite was true for men. At UCLA, a study of art has found that portraits emphasizing the right side of the face are judged by viewers to be more attractive. Again, this was despite a lack of typical facial beauty characteristics.

Regardless of how beauty is defined, its rewards extend beyond just finding a mate. Attractive people tend to earn superior salaries, are considered as being friendlier, and even get smaller fines and lighter prison sentences. In short, we don't appear to have moved on very far from our earliest ancestors. So if we cannot do anything to change our genetics, maybe it is time to evolve our behavior instead. Since most of us don't need to worry about limited resources and ever-present dangers anymore, perhaps we should give support to people based on what they do rather than how they look.