Most of us have ever imagined the life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise(天堂) where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you are free to sit around without any work. This is really a beautiful picture, isn't it? However, the other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is awful. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never comes.

    Perhaps there is some truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the chance to find out. We can only experience it in the story like the following.

    Many years ago, two men spent five days on a coral island and they wished that they could stay there longer. They were driving a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink(下沉). They quickly put food, matches, and cans of beer into a rubber dinghy(救生筏) and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island.

    There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not seem to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and they thought they lived just like a king. Five days later, a tank passed by and saved them. However, they felt sorry that they had to leave.

The Warrens are a common family — two parents, a son and a daughter. However, they have done 1 uncommon. A few years ago, they sold their big house and moved to the countryside.

2 that's not the only thing special they did. They built a small house which was powered by 3 !

Mr. Warren had been reading about all the problems with the electrical system. He wanted his family to play a small part in saving 4 planet.

The Warrens decided to make their own electricity to 5 everything they needed for their daily lives.

The kids were 6 at first. "Will we still be able to have a television?" asked the daughter, Jane. "What about my 7 ?" asked James, the son. "Don't worry at all," said their father. "Just because we are going to produce our own power using the wind and the sun, it doesn't mean we have to live in the 8 Ages."

"We are going to set up a wind generator (发电机)," explained Mrs. Warren. "The wind is a 9 way to make electricity. It's free. It's clean. And it blows really well at our new home. It doesn't blow every day though. That's 10 we need to have some batteries (电池) to store our power. When the wind blows, it charges our batteries. When there is no wind, we still have power in our batteries to 11 everything in our house."

Mr. Warren added, "We are also going to have two solar panels (太阳能电池板). They will collect the energy 12 the sun and turn it into electricity, too. So, when the wind blows, we have power. When the sun shines, we have power too."

It was easy to see that Mr. Warren 13 believed in renewable (可再生的) energy. And all his family agreed with him.

Now, the Warren family lives in this self-powered countryside 14 . They produce their own electricity. They pay more attention to the power they use now. They turn off lights when they 15 a room. They live happily in this energy-renewable special house.

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I am a middle school student. In the past, I had some bad habits. I almost never had breakfast {#blank#}1{#/blank#}I usually got up late. I didn't like exercising. I only exercised a few {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(time) a month. In the evening, I always watched TV for over two hours. Then I played online games for a long time, so I almost slept {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(little) than six hours every night. My parents thought {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(stay) up late was bad for my body and mind, so they got really {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(worry) about me.

 One day, I fainted(晕倒) in a P. E. class. When I woke up, I found {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(I) lying in the hospital bed. The doctor said that my classmates brought me here. He said that I was not {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(health). Then he told me to eat breakfast every day and do more exercise.

 From then on, I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(decide) to change my bad habits. Now I usually get up early and have a good breakfast. I try to eat lots of vegetables and fruit every day. After school, I always spend time {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(play) sports together with my friends. It's fun and good way {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(relax).

 Oh, I sleep nine hours every night. People often say, "Old habits die hard." ButI learned a lesson and changed it.