【推荐1】Mary is the hostess of her school radio station. She hosts New Movies once a week for ten minutes, and Travel Round the World for fifteen minutes each time, once a week too. But this time, she is talking to the world on web radio. Her district（地区）started web radio for kids this month. Every weekday, during lunchtime, students make a 30-minute Internet radio program. The schools in the district take turns（轮流）to host the program.

Mary says her job is very important. “In the past, only the students in my school could hear me, but with the web, students all over the world can hear my voice! I am sure that I can make friends with many people through my warm and easy talk,” she said.

Besides Mary, other kids from her school do a lot of work, too. After they decide on a story, some kids begin to surf the Internet, while the others begin to think of the program ideas or write the stories. The program is made on a computer. Listeners can then hear it by visiting the website.

The Education Bureau（教育部）began to prepare for web radio last year. An official（官员）said, “We want to let the kids know how to make full use of the Internet instead of（代替）only playing web games. ”

【推荐2】Four girls go to school every day by taxi. One day one of the girls says, “There is a test this morning. Let’s get to school late. Then we will not have the test.” “What can we tell the teacher?” One of the girls says. “He will be angry. We will need a good excuse.” The girls think for a moment, then one of them says, “Let’s tell him that our taxi has a flat tire(瘪胎).” “That’s a good idea,” the other girls say. “We will tell him that.” They get to school an hour later. The test is over. “Why are you late?You missed the test?” “Our taxi had a flat tire.” One of the girls said. The teacher thought for a moment, then he said, “Sit down, one of you in each corner(角落) of the classroom.” The four girls do this. Then the teacher says,” Write down the answer to this question on a piece of paper: Which tire is flat?”

【推荐3】The Homework Club is popular in many schools in China. Most students spend their afternoons at these clubs.   

The Homework Club is just a quiet place for them to do their homework. Teachers there can answer students’ questions and help with their homework. If students finish their homework on time, they will get a snack.   

Here’s some information about a homework club.

【推荐2】A rooftop garden is just a garden that you keep on your roof（屋顶）. Rooftop gardens are very popular in cities. Putting a garden on your roof is a nice way to turn an empty space into something pretty and relaxing.

Rooftop gardens are not a new idea. About 2, 600 years ago, people in Ancient（古代的）Mesopotamia planted rooftop gardens. There were similar gardens in Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt. They had these gardens for a very important reason. Many ancient cities had walls. The enemy army usually tried to destroy（摧毁） the city’s food, so the people in the city kept their gardens on top of their walls. That way they could go on growing food.

Today’s rooftop gardens don’t keep us alive, but they still have nice benefits（好处）. If there are a lot of plants on a rooftop, they make the whole building cooler. As a result, people in the building use their air conditioning less, which means they use less electricity（电）. One study said that if every roof in Tokyo had a garden, the city would save more than a million dollars a day on electricity.

Rooftop gardening is harder than normal gardening. Here are a few tips. First of all, be safe. Build a fence（篱笆） around your garden if you don’t want the wind to blow plants off your roof! Also, remember that rooftop gardens get more sun. If you have a plant that shouldn’t get too much sun, remember to put it in the shade sometimes.

There are many other things that you need to know before you start a rooftop garden. Do some research and then give it a try. You’ll make your little part of the city much nicer.

Chinese kids visit colleges

Where did you go this summer vacation? Perhaps you have visited some top universities at home or abroad. If so, you are not alone.

This summer, crowds of tourists from across the country traveled to famous universities like Tsinghua University, Peking University and Fudan University. Tsinghua University, for example, received 6,000 visitors a day, reported China Youth Daily. Most of them were junior and senior students with their parents.

With the rising number of visitors, it took many hours to enter the universities.

“Tsinghua University opens to the public at 8:30 am,” a guard (保安) told China Youth Daily. “However, many people start to line up (排队) at 3 to 4 am because people who come at 6 o’clock may be too late and can only enter in the afternoon.”

This is not only for Chinese universities. Oxford in Britain and Harvard in the United States are facing the same problem. In summer, bicycle paths of Oxford were full of tour buses, which were parked illegally (违规), according to The Independent. The pavements (人行道) were also full of Chinese tourists.

“University tourism” is popular because of the long histories and unique cultures of these famous universities. More importantly, many parents hope their children will go into a top university in the future, noted People’s Daily.

“I brought my son here to see what top universities look like,” a mother of a 14-year-old boy told China Daily.

She hoped her son could learn something from the trip and study harder after that.