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.

It's 5 o'clock. SeanMurphy is on his way home from work. He is tired and the bus is full, but whenhe thinks of seeing his lovely family at home, his heart is full of joy again.

"I want to see mywife, my children and my mother," he thinks. "But first of all I wantto sit on the sofa. I want to relax and read a good book."

Finally Mr. Murphy isat home. He is very tired now but he is happy. He says hello to his family.Then he sits down on the sofa, stretches(伸展)hislegs and lifts up his book.

"Now I canrelax," he thinks and smiles. But Mr. Murphy is not alone in the room. Hismother is playing the guitar and his wife is playing the piano. His two youngerchildren are fighting and his two older children are arguing about thetelevision. And the pots and pans are bubbling on the cooker(炊具).

It's the same everyday. Poor Murphy is very unhappy. He talks to his friend about his problem at abus stop.

Mr. Murphy's friendlistens to him carefully. Then he says: "Go and see Linda McCormack! Sheis a very clever woman. She knows the answer to everything."

Mr. Murphy thinks itworth(值得)a try. The next day, whenhe gets home, he doesn't go into the house as usual. He goes to the garage(车库)and gets on his bike.

When I was a little boy, I lived next to David. He liked to plant trees in his large yard on weekends. But the way he planted trees was quite different. He never watered his new trees. I asked him why he did so, and he said that watering trees would spoil them. "If you water the trees, each baby tree will grow weaker and weaker." said David. He told me that watering these new trees would make roots (树根) shallow (浅), but deep roots were very important for trees. I didn't understand his words at that time.

Several years after I left home, I came back to visit my parents. When I walked by David's house, I saw the trees that he planted. They are strong now. I suddenly realize that planting a tree is like raising a child. As a father of two children, I shouldn't care for them too much. Instead, they should depend on themselves. In that case, whatever happens, they can make their own decisions.

After two rounds of the competition with 20 debaters (辩论者), I finally sat in the leader's chair in the finals of our school debate competition.

We began by debating whether the Internet makes people 1 or reduces communication with others. I personally held the former. However, many people didn't 2 my opinion. They thought the Internet makes people communicate less with each other. Then we had a debate.

Our team made lots of 3 for the competition. We discussed many topics about the argument. We 4 as many points as possible on cards so that we could give quick and correct answers. We also prepared more information for the competition. It seemed that we would surely 5 .

However, as I sat in front of thousands of people, things turned out 6 . In my opening speech, time flew by so fast that I felt 7 and failed to finish my speech properly. Then it was our opponents' (对手的) turn. They asked me several questions. But one of them could show my weakness. I had no choice but to 8 answering it. I was worried that we would lose marks because of my answers.

Luckily, our 9 paid off. Our team 10 won the competition. The debate taught me to look at everything in different ways and always be fully prepared.

Alan is an English boy. Now he studies in Yuxin Middle School. He is in Grade Seven. His telephone number is 5774330. He has a dog. It's black and white. The dog is very clever. Alan likes it very much. Its favorite food is the bone (骨头). Every day when Alan gets home, the dog is waiting for him at the door of the house.

Alan's friend, Amy, is an American girl. She is in Shanghai, too. They are in the same grade, but in different classes. Her phone number is 8779655. She has a pet panda. It's also black and white, but it's not a real panda. It's a toy. The panda is very clean. Amy often washes it. Where is the panda now? Oh, it's sleeping with Amy. Every night it sleeps with Amy.

提示：

1. 外貌：比两年前高了许多，瘦了一点，头发更长了。

2. 性格：更外向了，变得更受欢迎了。

3. 爱好：更喜欢运动了，每周至少运动三次，更健康了。

4. 学习：功课多了，而且越来越难，所以打算更加努力地学习以取得更好的成绩。

5. 其他方面：现在不喜欢看肥皂剧了，因为它们无聊而且没有意义。喜欢看新闻，希望将来某一天成为一名电视记者。

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Dear Lily,

I'm glad to tell you some changes about me. 

……

What about you? Can you tell me something about your changes?

Yours,

Alice