Science fiction     1    (regard) by many people as a mirror through which our future can be     2    (free) imagined and explored. The Three-Body Problem     3    (write) by Chinese writer Liu Cixin is one of those astonishing     4    (predict) about the future. The work was first published in a Chinese sci-fi magazine in 2006 and printed as a three-volume book in 2008. When the first volume was translated into English by Chinese-American author Ken Liu, it attracted attention around the world,     5    (become) the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book     6    (represent) many themes such as space exploration, alien contact, AI, and the future of humans.

The Three-Body Problem begins with the stories of two unrelated people, Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao. Ye is recruited to join     7     secret project in a remote area of China,     8     has been set up to contact alien life forms. In the other story, set 20 years later, Wang Miao gets caught up in a popular online game called “Three Body”, in which people live on an unknown planet     9     three suns. But Wang discovers it is more than a game — it uncovers a great danger threatening human existence. How are these two people’s stories connected? And how will their behaviour change Earth’s future and the civilisations of other planets? Answers to all these questions are waiting to     10    (discover) when you go on reading.

It’s one of the     1     (great) novels in world literature. First published in 1791, A Dream of Red Mansions, also     2     (know) as The Story of the Stone, is to Chinese people as William Shakespeare’s famous plays are to westerners.

The novel,     3     reflects the history of the Qing Dynasty, follows the rise and fall of the noble Jia family. Originally, the family seems to be wealthy and     4     (power), thanks in part to its close relationships with the royal family. Yet, the heir to the family, Jia Baoyu, enjoys     5     (live) a pure, carefree life, having no interest     6     politics at all.

Expected to marry Xue Baochai, Jia falls in love with his delicately brilliant cousin, Lin Daiyu. As the lovers head toward a tragic end, the family falls on hard times, fading away eventually.

The     7     (appreciate) of the classic novel is surely both a pleasant treat and a bittersome challenge. In the past decades the novel     8     (experience) various adaptations. Making the detailed 120-chapter novel into just several hours is     9     (absolute) no piece of cake. “Still, choices have to be made,” the opera’s stage director Stan Lai concluded. “For everyone else, the challenge is to make it     10     excellent opera.”

Translated fiction sales in the United Kingdom    1    （rise）5.5 percent last year，with growing demand for Chinese titles，said Nielsen Book on Wednesday.

British newspaper the Guardian featured Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem and Jin Yong's A Hero Born in its report on this trend，    2    （say）that both "sold strongly" in 2018.

The research，by the Man Booker International Prize，shows more than 2.6 million       3    （copy）of translated titles     4    （sell）in 2018，at an estimated value of £20.7 million（$27 million），the highest ever since Nielsen started the study in 2001.

Fiammetta Rocco，from Man Booker International Prize，said，"Reading fiction is one of the best ways we have of putting     5    （we）in other people's shoes. The rise in sales of translated fiction shows     6     hungry so many British readers are for terrific writing from other countries. "

To Anna Holm wood     7    news is a signal that" a new era has arrived". Holmwood，who translated A Hero Born，told China Daily，"It's a big moment    8    Chinese fiction abroad. "

Holmwood has worked as a literary agent and    9    （translate）for nine years，and has seen firsthand how Chinese titles continue to gain a greater audience worldwide，    10    （particular）in the English-speaking world.

There are various reasons     1     people write poems. Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that will give the reader a strong     2     (impress). Others attempt     3     (convey) certain emotions. Poets use different forms of poetry to express     4     (they). For example, the language of nursery rhymes is concrete but     5     (imagine). And list poems have repeated phrases which give both a pattern     6     a rhythm to the poem. Another simple form of poem is the cinquain, which     7     (make) up of five lines and can express strong feelings in just a few words. And of course there are Tang poems from China which you may enjoy     8     particular. With so many different     9     (form) of poetry to choose from, students may     10     (eventual) want to write poems of their own.

You may like reading novels for fun. But you need to get organized     1     you are reading a novel for schoo1. Here     2    (be) a few tips.

First, pay attention to characters. What do they do in the novel? What do they want? Everything     3     is about a character can help us to understand him, from his     4    (appear) to the kind of food he eats.

Besides, the order of the story and the plot are     5    (equal) important. Make sure that as you read, you make     6     quick note of what happens in each chapter. This will help you bring the things you have noticed about the character, setting, language and so on together. It’s also an enormous help for you to retell the story after you have read it.

Next, themes. They are ideas that a novel explores.     7     is a must to get the hang of the theme if you want to fully appreciate the novel. Perhaps love is a major theme, or justice, or     8    (survive).

Furthermore, novels are made up     9     language. Writers use language in a special way     10     (make) their novels work. They may use metaphors, invent symbols, or show different characters’ personalities through their speech styles.