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chapter 4 techniques in reading and understanding English newspapers and magazines features of news headline news lead and summary sentence structure and stylistic features of news reporting features of news headline News headlines are quite distinctive. They are as short as possible; they summarize the main contents of an article and are designed to catch the readers’ attention; they usually omit parts of the verb to be and definite and indefinite articles; they often include adjectives and use past participles etc. 1 use of monosyllable nouns or verbs instead of longer or common words TV Airs “Facts” on Arms Delivery Man Claims Ghost Sighting Bullet train collision in China claims 35 lives Jewel Heist Foiled Fuel Strike Hits Hospitals Thailand, Malaysia Ink Sea Treaty Israel Softens Line Pit Talks End Swedish Poll Shows Swing to Right Post Office Profits Top ￡40M Jail Chief Sacked 14 Held for US Embassy Sacking Senate Trims Budget Peace Talks Threatened Irish Top Ranks Vie for Office Factory Walkout Threat over Sacking Peace Drive Succeeds American Envoy Taken Hostage Reagan Weighs Tax Increase China Backs Peace Move PM Lauds Community Spirit Financial woes dog new Hong Kong chief 2 use of acronyms, abbreviations and contractions A. “EEC and Japan”—(acro) European Economic Community B. “WB, IMF- Do They Help or Hurt Third World”(acro) World Bank, International Monetary Fund C. “The Great Superpower War—KGB vs. CIA”—(acro) Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti, Central Intelligence Agency; (abbr) versus D. “Lib-Lab pact rallies, survives”—(abbr) Liberal Party and Labor Party E. “EEC Warns Nuke Arms Spread”– (abbr) nuclear Splintered PLO Struggles to Stay Alive NATO: Who, What, Why? OPEC to Raise Production MIT’s Leader Shape Program No Hope for 118 Crew of Russian Sub University Entry Hard for Would-be Vets Put the Sci Back in Sci-fi 3 use of punctuation marks Almost all punctuation marks can be employed in news headli