For more than 30 years, the 50-year-old Zhu Yanjun had been a common migrant worker(外来务工) in different cities like many other people from the country, but what made him ________ was his strong passion(热情) for reading poetry and books.

In early February, 2023, Zhu became well-known when he became the runner-up in the annual Chinese Poetry Competition hosted by CCTV.

Zhu’s passion for reading came from his Chinese language teacher in middle school who has published many articles in magazines.

“I also wanted to publish stories, so I started to read, and borrowed books from friends and classmates,” he said. Born in a village in Jingning country, Gansu province, Zhu had never left his hometown in his youth. After graduating from middle school, he became a migrant worker.

Zhu worked in more than 10 cities, yet no matter where he was, he went to local bookstores and took a notebook with him in order to write down paragraphs from the books and recite them. Over the years, he has read thousands of poems and can recite more than 1,000 of them.

“There is an old Chinese saying: Reading 10,000 books is not as good as traveling 10,000 miles,” said Zhu. “However, for me, although I have been to many different cities, it is not for travel but to make a living. So I improve myself by reading books and poems.”

Reading poetry helps Zhu stay calm and he never complains about hard work. “Whenever I face any difficult, I think of Chairman Mao’s quotation: ‘Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it’,” he told China Daily.

Because of his good performance at the poetry competition, the government in Jingning county decided to hire him to work at the local cultural center. He started to work there on March 10.

What breaks your heart? “For me, it’s seeing people who need a friend,” the seventh grader Sammie Vance from Indiana, US, told People magazine.

During a summer camp, Vance learned about buddy benches（伙伴长椅）. These benches are seats at a school playground. A lonely child can sit on it. Then others will know he or she is in need of a friend.

Vance loved this idea. “This would be really cool to have at my school,” she said. To make it happen, Vance collected（收集）725 kilograms of bottle caps. Her mother helped find a company to turn the caps into benches. Vance said these benches were much cheaper than park benches and were good for the environment.

Vance did the same thing for other schools, too. She also made a Facebook page. People can make bottle cap donations（捐赠）. She was surprised when she got bottle caps from Germany, Australia and Israel.

Today, Vance has helped make 200 benches in schools and neighborhoods. But she is not going to stop. She said even adults can use a buddy bench because people at any age can feel lonely.

Hi! My name is Hunt. Here is a picture of my class. Joan is short and is wearing a yellow dress. She is good at(擅长) maths. David is tall and has black hair. He is good at playing basketball. Mike is big. He has small eyes. He is funny. He can play football. Lily has long hair. She can speak Japanese.

Helen is a black girl. She has short hair. She likes swimming. She is on the swimming team. I like music. Can you find me? I’m the boy with glasses. Becky is new here. She comes from Hong Kong. She has black hair and black eyes. She speaks English well. And she is very good at computer.