2 . Do you find yourself checking social media sites as soon as you wake up? Do you answer e-mails on your phone while surfing the Web? Actually, we've lived a life in which we're all connected, all the time. Whether or not this is a good thing is the subject of Hamlet's BlackBerry, a non-fiction book by William Powers based on an essay he penned.

Early in the work, Powers questions the way we use devices, but certainly he doesn't criticize it. He does, however, recognize the downside of constantly being overstimulated—or what he calls the “problem of connectedness”. Among the things disturbed by the problem, Powers says, are the ways in which people are connected and deal with each other. “Constantly switching among people on social media platforms, texts and all the new ways of connecting all day, we never have a sustained connection.” His intention of writing Hamlet's BlackBerry is to help teach people how to connect more wisely. Powers looked to the past, where he found several precedents(先例)for both the current information age and the anxiety that has come with it.

One major figure Powers examines actually developed his own strategies for dealing with overstimulation. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet is informed his father is murdered by his uncle and too shocked by the news to think calmly, so he pulls out his “tables” from the pocket, an object Powers describes as a so rt of original electronic planner. In the Elizabethan age, tables were a kind of new device designed to help people bring order to their lives despite massive news. You could write notes during the day and wipe(擦掉) them away at night.

But how do we deal with the same problem? Powers has one suggestion that's child's play: just disconnect. His family, for example, takes an “Internet Rest Day” every weekend. “We don't have smart phones. Therefore we can't check our inboxes and do Web surfing that day. We really enter another zone and it's wonderful. Even when we're connected to the Internet again, we feel benefits of having been disconnected days before,” he says. “It's just about that simple word—balance.”

One of the largest research libraries in the world, the British Library has added 16 Chinese online novels to the collection.     1     (cover) themes of science fiction, history, reality and fantasy, these works are viewed     2     the classics of Chinese online literature from the past 20 years.

The library houses more than 170 million     3     (collection), the cultural relics of different civilizations from throughout history included. The library usually selects works     4     (base) on their popularity or by considering an item’s value. Readers can check the information about the 16 books on the library’s website     5     borrow printed copies.

As one of the current pillars of mass cultural consumption,     6     began with “fastfood” romances, fantasies and mysteries, the Chinese online literature industry     7     (mature) quickly during its fast development over the last two decades.

In 2019, 10 online novels, including Great Power, Heavy Industry,     8     (be) added to the collection of the shanghai Library.And between 2020 and 2022, 144 online novels like Battle Through the Heavens and Lord of Mysteries were entered into the collection of the National Library of China.

“It’s     9     (true) unexpected to me that online fiction can be added to the collection of     10     foreign library. It feels like the path of online novel writing is becoming ever wider,” Yi Qianchong adds.

Found poetry is a type of poetry made up of other existing written or spoken materials. Since these materials already exist, the poet just“found” the poem within them.     1       (create) or “find” this kind of poetry, a poet might take words and phrases from another piece of work,     2    he might rearrange the entire contents of a piece of work. Similar     3       other kinds of poetry, found poems can be written in a variety of styles. Found poetry should not     4       (confuse) with parallel poetry, a type of poetry that relies on the poet writing a     5     (complete) new poem in the style of another poem or poet.

Generally, the structure of a found poem,     6     is fairly flexible, has no certain rules. Found poetry might be in the style of an epic or ballad, or it might follow the haiku or limerick poetry formats. Some poets might prefer rhyming verse poems, and     7       might write blank verse poems. The styles of sonnets, odes, and narrative    8     （poem） can all be represented with found poetry. As long as the existing materials allow for it,     9     found poet can create any style of poem he wants, and some poets might even welcome the challenge of     10     (apply ) the existing materials to create a certain style of poetry.