It was Day 1 of our vacation on Cortes, a beautiful quiet island. "iPhone, iPhone, iPhone," my son kept moaning (呻吟). In front of him was a big window of facing the blue ocean. And a Coo gentle wind was coming in from the door. Clearly, he saw and felt none of it.

    Back at home, I'd soon give up and hand the phone over to him after five minutes of listening to this kind of moaning

    But not here. Before we left, I had told my, 10-year-old son the rule-no e-mails, no Facebook, no video games, and no iPhone. We came here to get away from them all' Here we were on our first day and already, he couldn't stand it.

    ____________I walked down the grass road to the beach and looked out to the sea. My 6-year-old daughter and my husband were drawing on pieces of wood. They were doing just fine.

    On Day 2, we spent the whole morning digging for shells(贝壳). This time, my son joined us. He collected .shellfish and other sea treasures. When we got back to our little wood house, I gave my son a book, and put him on the lovely garden chair. It was almost dinner when he looked up.

    The next few days passed in peace.

    On Day 6, my son was lying beside me on the beach, watching the sun going down. He was playing with the sand. And there was somethingshining.in his eyes, I realized how time slowed down for both of us. It was exactly what I wanted. Finally, we were able to sit quietly, without thinking about screens, phone calls and e-mails.

    A week away from all the electronics and life is good.

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I have a friend. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(He) name is Frank. He likes {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(swim). He is good at swimming and he can {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(play) tennis very well. Frank and I {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(be) not in the same class, but we often play tennis on {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (Sunday). He is a good friend. 

Once upon a time, there was a family with 8 children living in a village. Two of the children, both boys, loved painting very much, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the family was so poor that it was impossible to send both of them to study at art school.

After many discussions, the two boys finally came up with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} idea. They would toss (抛) a coin. The loser would go down into the mines (矿井) and support his brother with his pay. Then, when the brother who won the toss finished his studies, in four years, he would pay the school fee for the other brother {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (study) at the college.

One of the brothers, Albrecht Durer, won the toss and his brother Jack went down the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (danger) mines. Durer worked with all his heart and his paintings were much better than those of most of his {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (teacher). He made a lot of money for his paintings.

Durer {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (return). When he told Jack he could go to art college, Jack said {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (quiet), "The four years in the mines has done too much to my hands. It is too late. Now I can't even hold a glass."

To show his love to his brother, Durer drew his brother's hands {#blank#}8{#/blank#} palms (手掌) together and thin fingers towards the sky. He called his drawing simply Hands, but the whole world almost quickly opened their {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (heart) to the great work and renamed it The Praying Hands.

The next time you see a copy of that touching creation, take a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (two) look. Let it be your reminder: No one can ever succeed alone!

As 16﹣year﹣old Torriell Norwood drove through Florida，last February，the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to screams.As they came near to a crossing，sending their car sailing into the yard of a nearby home，coming to a stop only when it hit a tree.

As smoke rose from the car，a bystander shouted，"It's about to blow up!Get out."Shaken but OK， ★ .Along with two of her friends，who'd also managed to free themselves，she ran for her life.But halfway down the street，Simmons，wasn't with them.Norwood ran back and found Simmons senseless in the back seat.She threw open the back door and pulled her friend out.She dragged Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground.After checking her pulse and found there was no sign of life（心肺复苏术）.

Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier，she might not have known what to do.But just the day before，Norwood，had earned her CPR certificate by learning on her own.Kneeling on the lawn and looking down at her dying friend，Norwood knew she had precious little time to practice what she'd learned.

She started pumping Simmons's chest with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend's mouth in the hope of filling her lungs with the kiss of life.After quite a while，Simmons began coughing and taking quick deep breaths for air.The CPR had worked!Soon，the ambulance arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital.And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life."I am not shocked，"She will always help any way she can."

Can you imagine a school with only one student？There is one on the Ferries Island，and Aron is the lucky dog. 

With no roads leading to the land，the only way to arrive at the Ferries Island is by1 . Aron isn't the only child on the 2 and he hasn't always been the only student at the school. There were some other students there，including two of Aron's brothers. As they got 3 ，they went to the secondary school in the nearest town. Since then，Aron has been the only student in the school. 

Aron's school is very 4 ，with only one classroom and a playground. Each week Aron studies maths，English5 . She also gives him PE lessons. This is usually a6 around the island . Aron has the school playground all to himself. But there is one problem. He has no one to7

Aron has lived on the island since he was born. He's never 8 the island so he doesn't know anything about the outside world. Aron enjoy s his life there，but his mother is worried that Aron might get 9 . She would like to see more families with10 coming to live there. She hopes her son can no longer be the loneliest schoolboy in the world.