阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。Nobel laureate Mo Yan was sharing his memories of the days when he first picked up his pen, 【小题1】 36 grassroots writers from around the country, at a seminar in Beijing on March 22.
Mo Yan believes that every writer, 【小题2】 influential they are, shares a similar course of growth, starting as a reader and literary 【小题3】(enthusiasm). They encounter something they are really into and itch 【小题4】(try) their hand at writing, imitating first, before eventually forming a style of their own, he says.
He recalled his days in the army in Baoding, Hebei province, giving lessons on Marxist philosophy, political economy and scientific socialism during the day, and writing at night. Every day he waited for the sound of the postman’s motorcycle 【小题5】(hope). His effort paid off when, in May 1981, a local bimonthly literature magazine decided to publish his maiden work. Mo Yan then struggled for a while, before he figured out that his rural hometown in Shandong province and a place he’s most familiar with, would provide 【小题6】 inexhaustible source of writing material.
The panel also included Liang Xiaosheng and Liu Zhenyun, whose works 【小题7】(reach) a multitude of readers at home and abroad so far. Liang’s full-length novel, Renshijian, 【小题8】 won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, among the field’s most prestigious awards in China, 【小题9】(adapt) into a hit series and direct heated discussions online last year. Liu stated the importance of characters’ interpersonal relationship and its structure, 【小题10】(add) that it required wisdom, creativity, and philosophical cognition to achieve that in a literary creation.
