Kang Yu, a 24-year-old volunteer teacher in a remote town in the mountains of Yunnan province, was teaching calligraphy to the eighth graders when all of    1    sudden, the clouds seemed to burst and the electricity went out.     2    (see) that the students were staring at the rain, Kang    3    (instant) got a burst of inspiration.

She told them to go outside, under a shelter, to enjoy the rain and come back to write something like a poem. Much    4    her surprise, the works written by the students were far beyond her expectations!

Inspired by that class, Kang founded the non-profit organization, Enlighten Our Future, to help Chinese youngsters improve their mental well-being and their exam grades through poetry composition and    5    (appreciate). She managed to persuade 13 schools    6    (adopt) the “Four-Season Poetry Lessons” project, with a teaching plan, content and methods she provided. So far, the poetry lessons    7    (design) by the organization have helped 68,000 students in 823 primary and middle schools, mostly in poor areas. Now Enlighten Our Future    8    (run) by three full-time workers, including Kang, 60 part-time workers, 280 backups and more than 1,000 volunteers.

What’s great about poetry is that it can help one to find an    9    (effect) way to communicate with oneself, she says. “    10    they need is not sympathy, but recognition, which I think will influence their whole life.”

Chinese Online Literature Gains in Popularity Overseas

Thanks to our country’s push to help Chinese culture go overseas, many Chinese online literature companies have been gaining influence overseas in recent years through the     1    (establish) of online platforms. According to a recent report, the number of overseas readers of Chinese online literary works     2    (rise) to more than 31.9 million.

Many overseas readers even write online novels by imitating Chinese online literary works. Logan,     3     young man living in Texas of the United States, is a big fan of China’s online literature.     4    (inspire) by Chinese online literary works, he began to write his own online novels. “I draw inspiration from Chinese online novels. Classic Chinese literary works,     5    (particular) Journey to the West, are also the inspiration for some of the characters in my novels,” he said.

“Human beings love stories, and some values of heroes in stories     6    (share) by people around the world,” an employee of China Literature said, adding that heart-warming stories with ambitious characters and traditional Chinese culture elements are     7    (attract) to overseas readers.

    8     translation of mainstream Chinese books may be struggling, English language readers of popular online writings are funding their own translations. For some Western readers,     9    (check) whether or not the latest chapter of their favorite online serial has been translated from Chinese     10     English is the first thing they do in the morning.