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people to make their bright ideas come true. There were t groups in the contest: Group A was for school children under 16; Group B was for those o were eleven prize-winners altogether.

Neil Hunt, one of the prize-winners, was c 6_ “Sunshine Superman” by one newspaper writing about his design. When people study the weather, it s important to be able to record the sunshine accurately(准确地，精确地). We need to know how many h of sunshine we have and how strong it is. Most sunshine recorders o record direct (直接的) sunshine. Neil s is more accurate and this is very i for research into ways of using solar power（太阳能）. Neil plans to keep inventing.

The ideas in the competition were so g 10 that we are surprised that the industry (工业界) doesn t ask more school children for suggestions.

十三

British teenagers can leave school at sixteen after taking their GCSE exams. They study for exams in as many as ten subjects, s they have to work pretty hard! Today s teens spend more time doing their homework than any teenagers in the past, s – 3 hours every evening.

Free Time

It s not all work, of course. What do British teenagers do to have f 3 ? They love watching TV, going out, meeting friends in Internet cafés and listening to music. Communications

In addition to the Internet, teenagers in Britain use their computers to play games and do their homework. They a(发短信) their friends and chatting. Today, phones are getting smaller and lighter and you can do a lot more w the coolest and most popular way to communicate. More than 90% of 12- to 16-year-olds have a mobile, and experts say that this stops t cigarettes.

Fashion (服饰)

At school, almost all British teenagers have to w 8 a school uniform. However, in their free t they can wear whatever they like, and what they like is designer names