Zhu Yanjun, 50, is the runner-up of the 2023 Chinese Poetry Competition.     1    (graduate) from junior high school in 1992, he stopped his schooling and left his hometown,    2    village in Jingning county of Gansu province, and began to work as a migrant worker.

Over the past 30 years,     3     he was busy working during the day, he kept on spending his spare time pursuing his passion for poetry. This year, he finally appeared in the Chinese Poetry Competition and won the second place, leaving the audience     4    (impress) with his talent.

Zhu’s     5    (enthusiastic) with poetry runs through every aspect of his life. He worked in more than 10 cities, yet wherever he was, he went to local bookstores and took a notebook with     6    (he) in order to copy poems. Over the years, he     7    (read) thousands of poems and can recite more than 1,000 of them.

In March of this year, Zhu Yanjun got a chance to work at the cultural center of Jingning County,    8     gives him more time to explore     9     is behind the poems. Zhu wishes to inspire more people around him     10    (explore) the beauty of reading.

3 . Perhaps you have been writing poems for a while now.    1    What about taking the next step and sharing your work with a larger audience? Here are some tips on how to get started.

●Find the market.

    2     It means those readers wanting to read your writing or a publication interested in receiving your submissions. Your school’s literary magazine, your hometown newspaper, poetry websites are all great places to start submitting your work.

Another way to get your poems into print is by entering contests. Contests can encourage you to write about new subjects and try different poetic forms. This does help a lot for more chances.

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If you want your poetry to be considered seriously by editors and contest judges, take their rules seriously. Be clear about all the requirements.     4     And double check for spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors to make sure that you offer the best version. Doing these, you’ll be ahead of the game.

●Keep good records.

Start a loose-leaf notebook containing all your poems. Every time. you submit a poem, note down the date, the market and the outcome of the submission. You can also make a document that tracks all the poems you have submitted on a laptop or smartphone.

●Don’t give up!

Every poet must get used to rejection. Your work is probably turned down. But it’s not a shame. Instead, it can be taken as a fun experience. It is a part of the publishing process, especially for beginning writers. Don’t stop writing or submitting!     5    

4 . Born in 1926, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was not originally chosen for the special position. However, that changed in 1936, when her father’s brother Edward Ⅷ gave up being the king and her father, George Ⅵ, took his place as the king. Suddenly, the 10-year-old was the heiress(女继承人).

Elizabeth’s royal(王室的)duties didn’t stop her interest in technology. During World War II, the princess wanted her father to allow her to do something for her country. Her father finally agreed to let her volunteer for the British Army, where she became a driver and trained in auto mechanics.

It was a pioneering move: Not only was she the first member of her family ever to serve in the military, but the sight of a woman taking apart engines and changing tires signalled a sea change in social and gender roles that would continue throughout the future queen’s lifetime.

In 1952, Elizabeth became queen of her country upon her father’s death. Her rule was modern from the very start. The new queen’s birth had roughly happened at the same time as the development of television, and during planning for her coronation(加冕礼)she broke with tradition and allowed the BBC to broadcast the event over live TV. It was the first coronation ever televised, and it literally created must-see TV.

Elizabeth came to power as the atomic age kicked into full swing, and she helped introduce the nation to those nuclear advances. In 1956, she opened the world’s first complete nuclear power station, Calder Hall. But the technology came with risk: The next year, a reactor at a nearby nuclear power plant, Windscale, caught fire, which was Great Britain’s worst nuclear disaster.

The queen also launched live broadcasts of royal addresses and permitted royal use of the Internet. Besides, she was one of the first people to ride through the Channel Tunnel, the undersea railway linking Britain to the rest of Europe.

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize (普利策奖)    1    (compete) for Books is now open, and    2    (include) a new category for a distinguished memoir (回忆录) or autobiography by an American author.

The Pulitzer Prizes for books are awarded    3    works in Fiction, U.S. History, Biography, Memoir or Autobiography, Poetry and Nonfiction.

    4     (previous), memoirs and autobiographies    5    (judge) in the Biography category. Many have been finalists in the category    6    have won the Prize.

“Memoirs and autobiographies are flourishing,” said Marjorie Miller, Administrator of the Prizes. “    7    the Pulitzer Prize Board considering them alongside biographies and other nonfiction for years, they felt it was time for each genre (体裁)    8    (have) its own prize category.”

The new Pulitzer Prize category will be for a distinguished and factual memoir or autobiography by an American author.

First awarded in 1917, Biography is one of the    9    (origin) Pulitzer Prize categories. It will now be awarded for a distinguished and appropriately documented biography by an American author.

This year, the criteria for entry in all categories remain the same: To be eligible,    10    (book) must be first published in the United States during calendar year 2022, and authors in all categories except US. History must be American citizens.

Poetry of the Song Dynasty,     1     (call) Song ci, came into being in the Tang Dynasty and reached     2     (it) summit in the Song Dynasty. This type of poem, whose words had to match the rhythm of the music properly, is similar     3     lyrics.

Ci,     4     (depend) upon its length, can be divided into three     5     (category): small-sized — less than 58 characters, middle-sized — 59-90 characters, and long-sized — more than 91 characters. Each ci has a title as well as a name of the tune,     6     decides the rhythm and form of a verse. The names of tunes, such as “The Beautiful Lady Yu”, “Buddha Dance” and “Spring in Peach Blossom Land” came from former     7     (music) works, historical figures or events, discourses, etc. Later ci       8     (develop) separately from music.

Poets in the Song Dynasty developed ci that was     9     (deep) in content and broader in form. Those who made     10     great contribution were Liu Yong, Su Shi, Yan Shu, Li Qingzhao, Xin Qiji, etc. If you seek out their fine ci and study it further, you may find it a source of unlimited interest.