Some teenagers think that newspapers are boring and only for adults. But that’s not true. There are many interesting stories in the paper. You just need to make clear what you are looking at. “I spend about half an hour reading newspapers every day,” said 15-year-old Gao Ming from Beijing. “I’m interested in things happening at school.” School news is just one kind of news story in newspapers. There’s also world news: from international (国际的) problems to pop stars.

Read the newspaper carefully, and we’ll find different kinds of articles on the pages:

News stories—these stories are about events (事件). Reporters try to show all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. Reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. They also use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. The newspaper Teenagers has lots of news stories on the news page and front page. When we read them, we learn more about the facts, not the writers’ ideas.

Opinion writing—opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. But it isn’t just facts. Here writers add (增加) their own opinions to the news. Writers pick only the facts that help back their ideas. They make readers believe that they are telling the truth (真相). This is usually the kind of story that gets people thinking. Go to “Speak Out” on Page Two for an example of opinion writing in Teenagers.

Advertisements—Don’t get happy too early when you read them. Those sweet words and lovely pictures are just ways to get us interested in their products (产品)! People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!

One day Peng Xianzhe learned he would go to theMashan Schoolin Guizhou. The 16-year-old boy tried to imagine how serious the drought (干旱)was for the students at that school. However, he realized it was more serious than he had imagined when he saw the sign“DON’T wash clothes with water，or you will be punished（惩罚）.”

Because of drought, the school has been short of water for a long time. Each student has only one bottle of water every day for washing and drinking. The drought has made the poor students much poorer.

Peng is a student from Beijing Chaoyang Foreign Language School. He took part in the school’s Rain & Bow Project from April 2 to 10.

The project idea came from Peng’s principal（负责人）. One day, she heard a sad story about Li Guoxian, a poor girl in the Mashan School，who stopped going to school because of drought. The principal started this project to help the school. In one day, 3，000 students made over 10，000 donations（捐献） of water，books and clothes.

Peng and other four students went to the Mashan School and gave the donations with five teachers. They visited poor families, made surveys and had classes at the school.

Ding Zhentao，16，was worried about the school’s poor learning environment. “The blackboards and playground are tooshabbyto use，”Ding said.“Besides, there really aren’t enough teachers. A teacher has to teach both history and English, and even the cook is a class teacher.”

Although life isn’t easy, students at the school have a positive attitude(积极的态度）towards life and they are quite willing（乐意）to learn. That’s what moved 16-year-old Chen Shi most.

“They sang their songs together as usual before class every afternoon. After class, the students asked us to tell them things about Beijing and our studies,” Chen said.“You can see the passion(热情）in them. I believe it will make a difference. Their futures will be bright.”

Last week was Road Safety Week at Jason’s school.All the students had to take part in a talk on road safety which was given by a police officer.The following is what the police officer said.”Most traffic accidents shouldn’t happen.They happen only because people are careless.A frequent cause of traffic accidents is speed.Some people drive too quickly.This means that if they have to stop suddenly .they cannot stop quickly enough to avoid(避免） hitting other vehicles(车辆）or people.You need to remember this when you are crossing the street or walking along the side walk.”

“It’s not only drivers who cause accidents .however .People on foot-pedestrians and bicycle riders often cause accidents .Pedestrians sometimes walk out into the street without looking .You should always look on both sides before stepping into the street.”

    Do any of you ride a bike ?Bicycle riders can cause accidents by changing directions suddenly or without warning other road users.Before you turn left .for example .you should check behind you to make sure there aren’t any cars .trucks or buses coming.You should .If clear.The rules of the road are very simple .If we learn them and obey them .we should not have accidents any more.”