While I was waiting in line at a coffee shop earlier, a woman drove alongside the queue in a mobility scooter(踏板车). There was only a1space between the line of people and the tables, which she2to drive along. She drove over my foot and did not 3saying nothing at all.

    I got annoyed and expected she would have4, but then I just decided to5it and got down to selecting which pastry(点心)to go with my coffee. The lady and I ended up sitting at adjacent(领近的)tables. She was on the end of a row so that she could park her 6. After about half an hour, when she had7her coffee, she got up and back onto her scooter. It8start. She tried to turn the key several times9she telephoned the place she purchased it from.

    An engineer 10within five minutes. The place must have been local. I couldn't 11overhearing their conversation, and it turned out she had just 12the scooter that morning. This was her very first outing in it. She felt really13about driving it.14, she wasn't used to its speed, nor its 15, and this combination made it quite16to drive it through narrow gaps.

Suddenly, I felt 17for the lady. It really didn't 18me at all that she'd driven over my foot. I had made an assumption,19, that a person doing that should apologize.

    Next time you're about to 20someone, pause for a second and remind yourself that people have judged you without knowing what was going on in your mind or your life.

    It was a cold and wet night, I had just left a local club to travel home when I lost control of my car. I crashed into a car, then hit a tree. The force was so great that is knocked the parked car several meters forwards. I was knocked out cold. Worse still, I had no idea that a fire had started under the engine of my car. It then set the tree on fire.

    Driving behind me was a young man, who I later found out was called Jared. He saw the accident occur and stopped to help me out of the burning car. He put his own life in danger when he got into the back seat to try to undo my seat belt. This wasn't easy because I'd hit the car on my driver's side and my seat belt was squeezed into the console (操纵台).

    With my seat belt undone, Jared then hit open the driver's window to drag me out as I had still not regained consciousness (意识). He bravely did this while my car and the tree were burning. Woken by the crash, the homeowners came out to investigate. Jared told them to ring emergency services. I was rushed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a serious condition. I eventually woke up a day later.

    I owe my life to Jared and I consider him a friend due to the special bound. Jared says that although the events of that night initially shocked him, he never once hesitated to help. In addition, he doesn't believe that he did anything special.

    It is a story that happened several years ago but it has always stayed with me since then. On my way back home from work every day, there was 1 a homeless man standing by the road. His 2 had a sparkle and they were what struck me the most about him. His eyes, I thought, 3 the man in general. He always waved at every 4, and he was smiling and even dancing sometimes. It seemed that he was always 5.

Every day after work I would 6 to gather any spare change to give to him 7 I saw him. I'd quickly 8 my car window and give him the coins. 9 the red light would be on for a minute and we would ask each other about our day. His 10 would be always the same, "I'm blessed!"

    It amazed me that even in his situation of being 11 he was so positive, and his answer would always12 me of my happiness.

    Then one day I 13 my job. How could I continue my life? I was 14 on my way home. I didn't remember to look for my spare change and keep it 15 like I usually did.

When I saw the homeless man that day, he set his eyes on me while still 16 and waving at others. When I was waiting for the red light to 17, the man walked to my car and said with a big smile, "Today I will 18 you a dollar." He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a dollar bill. I was moved and burst into tears.

    That day, I 19 that no matter what material things are taken from you, 20 can take away your choice to be joyful. So every time I'm faced with challenges, I think of the homeless man's valuable lesson and remember that I am blessed.

    Once upon a time, there was a poor man. His 1 was also very poor — a small and empty house, which was 2 with spider webs (蜘蛛网). People tried to 3 coming into his house as they didn't want to come to such a 4 place. And the poor man thought that poverty (贫困) was the 5 for his unlucky life.

    Then, the poor man 6 a wise man and told him about his poverty. The man felt sorry for the poor man and gave him a vase (花瓶). “This will save you from 7,” the wise man 8. The poor man took the 9 from the wise man and wanted to 10 it at first and then spend the money on drinking, as usual. Besides, why would he 11 such a beautiful thing? But then he started 12 the vase carefully and decided not to take it to the market. He brought the vase back to his 13, put it on the table and started watching it again.

    “It's not 14 for such a beautiful thing to be 15” the poor man thought. So he 16 some flowers and put them into the vase. It became even 17. “Not good that such a beautiful thing stands next to a spider web,” the poor man 18 again.

    So the poor man started 19 his house. He cleaned the dust, washed the floor and whitened the walls. And it became clear that his house wasn't poor, 20 rather warm and comfortable. And the poor man wasn't a poor man anymore, but a hard-working host, who had no time to think about poverty.

    Once a little boy found a caterpillar （蝴蝶幼虫）. After he was allowed to 1 it at home, the little boy got a large box from his mother and put plants to eat, and a stick to climb on. One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting 2. The boy worriedly called his mother who came and understood that the caterpillar was creating a cocoon （茧）. The mother explained how the caterpillar was going to go through a(n) 3 and become a butterfly.

    The little boy watched every day, waiting for the coming out of the butterfly. One day it happened, a small hole 4 in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle （挣扎） to come out. At first the boy was 5, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was struggling so hard. But it looked like it was making no 6. Longing to see it out, the boy decided to help. He cut the cocoon with scissors to make the hole 7 and the butterfly quickly flew out!

    To his surprise, the butterfly had an unexpectedly large body and small wings. He 8 to watch the butterfly, hoping that the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the huge body. 9 nothing happened! It never was able to 10.

    The boy tried to 11 what had gone wrong. To help him, his mother took him to talk to a scientist. He 12 that the butterfly was supposed to struggle. Without the struggle, the butterfly would never fly. The boy's good wish 13 the butterfly.

    As you go through school, and life, keep in mind that struggling is an important part of any experience for 14. It is the struggle that 15 us to develop our ability to fly.

AI-generated content has recently won big in the literary world. Japanese author Rie Kudan won one of Japan's most famous literary awards, the Akutagawa Prize, with the help of ChatGPT in The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy. 

The book is set in future Japan, where AI has become an important part of people's lives. The story centers around an architect who creates a comfortable prison but struggles with a society that she sees as being overly sympathetic to criminals. 

Kudan admitted at a news conference that "around 5 percent of the book's text was taken directly from generative AI," reported kyodo News. She added that there is a scene in the book where an AI chatbot answers the main character's questions and she used AI-generated text in the responses given by AI in the story. The word-for-word content generated by AI was applauded by committee members as "practically flawless", said CNN. 

This is not the first time that Al-related works have won prizes. In October 2023, The Land of Machine Memorieswas awarded second prize at China's fifth youth popular science and science fiction competition. The fiction was fully created by AI with the prompts (提示) given by Shen Yang, a professor at Tsinghua University. Surprisingly, just one judge among the six of the competition realized that what they were reading was the product of a machine. 

So will literature in the future be all about AI? Debates are still ongoing on the matter. Japanese literary critic Akira Okawada told Tyodo News that "it is difficult for AI to create work that addresses ethical themes in depth". However, Chinese writer Luo Ping holds the positive view. "Improvements in technology will not cause human laziness in creating, but rather will only make them involved in more heated competition. With the help of technology, the starting point of human thinking will only grow higher," Luo told Hongxing News. 

"I think this is only the beginning for AI in creating literature," Fu Changyi, a member of Jiangsu Popular Science Writers Association, told online news Guancha. "We will wait and see how the future goes," he added.