When Mr. David retired（退休）, he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it. But to his surprise, many visitors came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night, there were visitors outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into the house. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said, "If you want to satisfy your curiosity（好奇心）, come in and look around. Price twenty dollars. "Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. "I came here to retire, not to work as a guide（导游）, "he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

    Teenager Jake Deham was skiing with his family in the USA when he fell over and lost one of his skis. His family didn't know that he had a problem. They kept on skiing. When they got to the foot of the mountain, there was no sign of Jake.

    Jake couldn't find his ski anywhere. In the end, he decided to take off his other ski and walk down the mountain. But he couldn't work out the right way to go.

    It was now getting dark and he was a long way from any place of safety. He knew that he might die that night in the cold temperatures. But Jake kept calm. At home, Jake watched a lot of programs about living in difficult situations. He remembered the advice from these programs and knew that he should build a hole in the snow. He made a hole and pointed it up the hill so the wind couldn't blow into it. Outside his hole, the temperature fell to a dangerous-15℃ that night, but inside it Jake was safe from the cold.

    But he had to get down the mountain. The TV programs always said," If you are lost, you should find someone else's tracks(足迹) through the snow and follow them." "I wanted to live my life." remembers Jake." So I got up and I found some ski tracks and I followed those." He walked and walked and finally he saw lights. Nine hours after he lost his ski, he found a team of worker who came to save him. He was safe!

    His mum was very happy when she heard the news. Amazingly, Jake didn't even have to go to hospital. He got through the terrible experience without any injuries.

    So, the next time someone says that watching TV is a waste of time, think of Jake. Sometimes TV can save your life!

Once upon a time, there was a young man called Ma Liang He was poor. But he was kind and hard-working and liked drawing. One night, he dreamed(梦见)that an old man gave him a magic paintbrush(神奇的画笔)and asked him to use it to help poor people. When he woke up, he found the magic paintbrush in his desk.

From that day on, he used the paintbrush whenever people needed help. When he saw that people had no water to use or drink, he drew a river and the river came to life. People could bring water from the river.

Then many people knew about the magic paintbrush. But a few days later, a rich and bad man heard that the magic paintbrush could turn everything to life. He took the magic paintbrush away from Ma Liang's house and put Ma Liang into prison(监牢). Then he drew a lot of pictures with the paintbrush, but they could not become real.

So he said to Ma Liang, "If you draw some pictures for me and make them real, I will make you free."

The young man agreed and drew a sea first. Then he drew a golden mountain which was far away from the sea. The bad man said, Draw a big ship quickly. I want to go there to get the gold."

After the young man drew a big ship, the bad man jumped into the ship with his family and friends quickly. When the ship moved to the middle of the sea, the young man drew a large wave(波浪)and they never came back.

No one was sitting on the park bench. I went over and sat down, sighing. I felt my life was hopeless because my whole world was 1 . Just then, a young boy walked up to me, out of breath. He stood right before me and said with great 2 , "Look what I found! "He had a flower in his hand. 3 the petals were all dry. I told 4 to go away politely, and faked (假装) a small smile. But he shook his 5 . He sat down next to me and put the flower to his 6 . He said, "It smells pretty and it's beautiful, too. That's why I 7 it. It's for you. "The flower before me was dying. I knew I must 8 it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower, and replied, "Just what I need." Just then, for the 9 time I noticed that boy could see 10 . He was blind. 

Tears came down my face as I 11 him for picking the best one. "You're welcome," he smiled, and then 12 . I sat there and wondered how he was able to know I was 13 . Through the eyes of a blind boy, I found it was me who can't see the beautiful world, 14 I was blind in my heart. Then I decided to see the beauty in life, and 15 every second of my life.

I was on vacation last month. I went to Hong Kong 1 my parents. We went there by plane. It was really 2 for me to have such a great experience(经历). 

3 it's a small city, there are too many people. The city is clean and the people there are very4 We went to Times Square first because it was near 5 hotel. We also wanted to buy 6 there. The things there were cheap, and we enjoyed going 7 there. Then we went to many other 8 I liked the Ocean Park best. The Ocean Park was really big and there were many tourists. I saw many ocean animals there. I took a cable car(缆车). From it, I also 9 green hills and colorful flowers. 

This trip was so wonderful that I wouldn't forget 10 forever(永远).