On Tuesday in Gaomi, Shandong province, a new museum opened to visitors     1     (honor) Mo Yan’s achievements. Mo Yan,     2     was born in Gaomi in 1955, won the Nobel Literature Award in 2012, and is known     3     writing stories rooted in his home and the land.

“Most of the stories I tell are true and have happened in Gaomi,”     4     author said at the opening ceremony for the Mo Yan Literature and Art Museum,     5     (add) that he hopes the museum will become a place for international literary exchange and a     6     (culture) home for Gaomi locals.

The museum contains versions of his books in different     7     (language), as well as manuscripts, and award medals and certificates. It will host literary events and tours for students too.

Mo Yan also said that many famous writers were born in Shandong and he hopes that the museum will contribute to     8     (draw) them together. Writer Feng Jicai     9     (attend) the opening ceremony. “A big tree of literature has grown, and the earth     10     it grows helps it to develop. The museum is the earth for us to find out roots to interpret Mo Yan and learn more about him,” he said. “It also shows how people love and respect him.”

The Little Prince has arrived in Paris, nearly eight decades after it was written.

The well-known novel     1     (pen) by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in New York during World War II, and now 30 pages of the manuscript (手稿) are    2     display at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The manuscript sits alongside hundreds of other items that celebrate the author’s life and work. They include watercolors,     3     (drawing), photographs, poems, newspapers and letters.

Born in the French city of Lyon in 1900, Saint-Exupéry was a writer, pilot and journalist     4     joined the French air force. He finished writing the novel in the United States, which was published in New York in 1943 in both English and French.

The simple tale, which    5     (sell) well worldwide, is about     6    child who travels the universe gaining wisdom.     7     its publication, it has been translated into nearly 500 languages, making it one of the most translated works in the world. Saint-Exupéry, however, did not live to see that reach. He went    8    (miss) while flying a mission in 1944 and was reported dead in 1945.

Saint-Exupéry wrote and drew on    9     (extreme) thin paper, which made the task of transporting the pages of the manuscript even more challenging.     10     (ensure) safe transportation, the pages were carefully framed (镶框) by the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant was a famous French author who wrote under the pen name Guy de Maupassant. He is acknowledged     1     one of the fathers of the modern short story. He was skilled at clever plotting, and served as a model for     2     great number of writers     3     (include) William Somerset Maugham, O Henry, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin and Henry James.

He was a popular writer during his lifetime and was lucky     4     (see) his stories widely read. As a young man he     5     (fight) in the Franco-Prussian War. He drew     6     (heavy) on that experience and that war provides the setting for many of his stories     7     often describe the pain and suffering of poor people     8    (catch) in war’s path.

His most famous work for English     9     (reader) is probably The Necklace. If you are unfamiliar with his works, also consider A Piece of String, Miss Harriet, and My Uncle as starting points. His first published story, Boule de Suif,     10     (consider) as a Guy de Maupassant’s masterpiece as well. Guy de Maupassant suffered from mental illness in his later years and died in 1893.