My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I n ever wished her to show up in my school, being afraid that my classmates would   1 I had an ugly mother.

    One day during elementary school, I was terribly ill. My mother came.

  “Your mom only has one eye?!” asked some of my classmates. I was so 2.

    I wished my mother would just 3 from this world. “If you make me teased(嘲笑), why don't you just die?” I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some medicine and left without saying 4.

    At that time, I felt 5 to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn't think I had hurt her feelings very much. That nigh t I saw my mom 6 in her room, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might 7 me. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a   8: I must study hard and leave my mother.

    Years later my dream came true. I was quite successful and lived 9. I never thought of going back to see my “ugly” mother   10 one day I got a letter, which said, “My son… I'm sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into a(n) 11 and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't 12 watching you live with only one eye. 13 I gave you mine. I was never  14 with you and I never regretted(后悔) what I did be cause I 15 you……”

    I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!

    Hey, friends! I'm Alice. I'm an English1, but I'm in China now. My 2 is Xu Ruike. These are two3of my family. My father Xu Yajun and I are in the 4 photo. Xu Yajun is my5Chinese name.6English name is Mike. In the second（第二） photo, you can 7 three people. They are my mother and my 8 sisters. Their names are Dee, Elly 9 Lily. Dee is my mother. Elly and Lily 10my sisters. They are nice.

    Kierman was born in Sydney, Australia, and grew up near the sea. For more than 40 years, he raced in international sailing competitions.

    In 1987, Kierman was competing in an around-the world race when he began to 1 the huge amount of rubbish in the world's oceans.  When he returned to Australia, he 2 to do something about it.

    He organized a community 3 called "Clean Up Sydney Harbour". On Sunday, January 8, 1989, more than 40,000 volunteers came out to 4away rubbish. The next year, Kierman made the clean-up a national event. It was a huge 5 Across Australia, about 300,000 people spent the day improving their local 6.

    Since then, "Clean Up Australia" has got 7every year. In 2002, for example, 800,000 people cleaned up almost 15,000 tons of rubbish from Australia's beaches, parks and streets.

    Kierman was 8 with the success of his project. In 2003, he started an even bigger program. With the9 of the United Nations Environment Program, he introduced "Clean Up the World", an international program that supports communities around the world in cleaning up and protecting the environment. "Clean Up the World" has grown 10 and his wonderful idea has now spread from one city to the whole world.

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.