When a thought has found words

Poetry (诗歌)is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure. In Western high schools, poetry is s 【小题1】taught because it is considered to be out of date and have little to do with the life of today's students.

In China, however, poetry is s【小题2】 an important part of the curriculum (课程). Recently, the Ministry of Education has i【小题3】the number of old Chinese poems for students to memorize and recite, from 14 to 72. Why is it important to learn poems?

First of all, poetry is a necessary part of learning traditional Chinese c【小题4】. It is a path to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and feelings that are c【小题5】 to everyone but that we may be unable to express—the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, sadness and even anger, and a good poem can put those feelings into w【小题6】and bring us self-understanding.

Poems can also express beauty. In a few short 1【小题7】 even something common can   become beautiful. Here is a poem called Fog by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes/ on silent haunches (弓腰)/ and then moves on. Yes, fog does move smoothly, silently and like a cat, and Sandberg c【小题8】 that feeling and image (形象),and makes it beautiful.

Of course, to really enjoy poetry, it has to be read aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music. Most a【小题9】poetry, like Homer's Epics (《荷马史诗》)and China's Book of Songs (《诗经》),was spoken for hundreds of years before it was w【小题10】. The American poet Robert Frost said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

A site of an animal rock painting has been discovered at Helan Mountain in Shizuishan City, Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, according to the local 【小题1】 (culture) relics department(文物部门).

According to an investigation(调查), the rock paintings, carved(雕刻) on 【小题2】 surface of taupesandstone, can be divided into 11 groups, with more than 30 individual images 【小题3】 (clear) recognized. The well-preserved and vivid paintings described animals such as sheep, horses 【小题4】 camels.

Helan Mountain is regarded 【小题5】 a representative site of rock paintings in 【小题6】 (north) China and so far, over 10,000 rock paintings and carvings dating back 10,000 to 3,000 years 【小题7】 (find). Now scientists are busy 【小题8】 (fix) those paintings.

According to local authorities, one of the latest 【小题9】 (discover) will help researchers understand the life of early human beings. The paintings have been mapped for further research and protection work 【小题10】 (be) underway(在进行中).

Brought out on Aug. 30, a three-episode web series (三集网剧) called Escape From the British Museum has become p【小题1】 online with its moving and creative story.

The series tells the j【小题2】 home of a Chinese jade teapot (玉茶壶). In the story, the jade teapot c【小题3】 into a young woman and runs away from the British Museum. She meets a Chinese reporter n【小题4】 Zhang Yongan in the UK and asks him to take her back to China. On the way home, she not o【小题5】 travels across the country but also carries letters by other artifacts (古器物) in the museum to their families in China.

The series, made by Chinese vloggers (视频博主) Jianbing Guozai and Xiatian Meimei, hopes to draw people’s attention to Chinese artifacts abroad. Lines in the videos touch many people d【小题6】, such as “My family, I have been lost for a long time” and “As long as I’m with my family, I’m safe”. Also, the face of the “jade teapot” is dirty, and she is surprised by how b【小题7】 the reporter’s house is because her own place—a cabinet (陈列柜) is really small. Viewers say this shows that the British Museum doesn’t take good c【小题8】 of the artifacts.

In mid-August, it was reported that m【小题9】 than 2,000 artifacts from the British Museum were missing, stolen or damaged (损坏的). This has caused a f【小题10】 discussion on social media in China, calling for the return of Chinese artifacts.