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.

We know that smartphone addiction can affect lives in negative ways. A 2017 University of Texas study claimed that merely    1    (place) a smartphone in someone’s line of sight slowed down their productivity and reduced their grades. An earlier study from London found students who didn’t use smart phones saw their test scores increase     2    6.4 percent.

It is     3    (extreme) difficult to break away from smartphone addition. Some people have event red punishing     4    (they) for using their devices. Now, an APP is being released(发行) in the UK that rewards people for staying away from their smart phones. The APP, called Hold,    5    (create) by three Norwegian university students, who found that positive rewarding was the most     6    (effect) way of conquering smartphone addiction. Hold allows students to collect points for staying away from their devices between the hours of 7 a.m.    7    11 p.m.; they get 10 points for every 20 minutes. The points    8    (collect) can be used for discounts on everything from cinema tickets to food and drinks. A cinema ticket, for example, costs 60 points, or 2 hours away form a phone.

Over 120, 000 people in Norway, of    9    40% are college students, use the app. It’s now available    10    students from over 170 universities in the UK.

At the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Wang Ge,    1     paper-cutting artist, runs a market stand where impressive examples of her work are on display in the popular tourist destination.

Growing up in the region and influenced by diverse ethnic cultures, she is committed to     2    (tell)Xinjiang stories through her paper cutting while protecting and promoting the traditional folk art. “Paper cutting is a     3     (combine) of folk art and daily life,” said Wang, who graduated     4    the art department of Xinjiang Normal University.

During her decades of paper cutting she     5    (inspire) by real-life experiences, especially those relating to ethnic culture in the region. She often travels to Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu in southern Xinjiang to explore     6    local ethnic people live. One of her works features 20 people     7     (dress) in traditional costumes with musical    8    (instrument) in hand, singing and dancing in a grape garden. Wang saw the lively scene when she was traveling in Aksu.

After the COVID-19 outbreak, Wang gave online lectures on paper cutting, attracting 100, 000 viewers and teaching students     9     (able) to attend school how to cut the images of medical workers from paper. Wang said she was pleased     10    (see)pupils who lacked colored paper painting the white paper red and green as an exchange art form.

Once I went to a German city for vacation. The trip left a     1     (deep) impression on me than before. It was already dark outside when I arrived at the airport at 6 p.m. The first thing was to find a place to stay. I decided     2     (call) the youth hotel. But to use the phone I    3     (need) some coins. I asked a lady for help. To my surprise, she gave me three     4     (coin) to use. But all the phones there needed phone cards which could only be bought at post-offices during the daytime. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to call the hotel.     5     old gentleman helped me. He couldn’t speak English     6     understand that I needed to make a phone call. He showed me to the phone and inserted（插入）his phone card. I called the hotel and found a place to stay that night. The     7     (kind) of German people made me feel at home.

Wherever I went, I asked people for directions. It surprised me that almost every young German could speak English     8     ( fluent). Older Germans couldn’t speak English very well, but they would try to help me whenever they could. One middle-aged man even drove me to the place I was looking for. My experience in Germany completely changed     9     (I) impression of Germans.

I thought Germans were not     10     (friend) to foreigners before, but things have changed since then. The people in Germany couldn’t be more friendly.

Peng Liyuan,     1     wife of President Xi Jinping, has called for unity and cooperation (合作)     2     (advance) girls’ and women’s education around the world.

Peng mentioned China’s tireless efforts to secure the goal of getting rid of absolute poverty across the country, saying that anti-poverty program through advancing education     3     (be) one of the important measures in achieving that goal. She also underlined the need to strengthen the determination to advance girls’ and women’s education in order to enable more of them to receive a good education. As COVID-19 is still spreading     4     (global), Peng said that no girls should be left behind due to the pandemic. She called for international cooperation, more financial input     5     more creative steps to deal with the challenges. She said that education should focus     6     helping people improve their ability to promote harmonious coexistence between man and nature,     7     (add) that she is confident that the world in the future will be     8     (beautiful) as a result of education. Peng expressed her hope     9     governments from all countries, international     10     (organize), civil society and individuals could take active measures to empower women with education, and push for girls’ and women’s education to make greater progress.

Two men     1    (fly) to Australia to play in a golf match. Their team won and both of them were awarded green jackets. On their last night in Australia, they stayed up late drinking. By early morning, they were quite drunk, but they had to get to the airport for their flight. So they drove their    2     (rent) car to the airport. The road was    3    (complete) empty, but suddenly, something jumped out in front of the car. The driver couldn’t stop in time, so the car hit it. The men got out of the car and found a large kangaroo    4    (lie) on the road. Still drunk, one of the men put his jacket on the kangaroo, and then they posed with it for some    5    (photo). All of a sudden, the kangaroo opened    6    (it) eyes, kicked them over and then ran off, wearing the man’s jacket, where    7     was the key     8     the car, his passport and two air tickets.

    9    (late) that day, a cyclist phoned to report a kangaroo wearing a green jacket. Shortly afterwards, the police found    10     had happened. They arrested the two men.