大学英语外报复习新闻·及结构news-and-its-structure.pptVIP

人口红利：指一个国家的劳动年龄人口占总人口的比重较大，抚养率比较低，为经济发展创造了有利的人口条件，整个国家的经济呈高储蓄、高投资和高增长的局面。 News and the structure I. Introduction What is news? 1. News is a fresh report of events, facts, or opinions that people did not know before they read your story. 2. News is anything timely that interests a number of persons, and the best news is that which has the greatest interest of the greatest number. 3. News is any event, idea or opinion that is timely, that interests or affects a large number of people in a community and that is capable of being understood by them. 4. News is the reporting of anything timely which has importance, use, or interest? to a?considerable number of persons in a publication audience. 新闻是对任何事物的及时报道，对于读者群体中 的许多人来说，这类报道具有重要性、实用性或 趣味性。 5. If a dog bites a man, it is not news; if a man bites a dog, its (big) news. 狗咬人并非新闻，人咬狗才是（大）新闻。 …… News is an account of what is happening around us. It may involve current events, new initiative or ongoing projects or issues. But news is not only about what’s taking place of the day, it also concerns background analysis, opinions, human interest stories, etc. A. Identify news categories the nature of the reported events 1. hard news 2. soft news Hard news is how journalists refer to news of the day. It is a chronicle of current events / incidents and is the most common type of news printed on the front page of a typical newspaper. 硬新闻关系到国计民生以及人们切身利益 的新闻。包括党和国家的重大方针、政策的 制定和改变，时局变化，市场行情，股市涨 落，银根松紧，疾病流行，天气变化，重大 灾难事故等等。这类新闻为人们的政治、经 济、工作、日常生活的决策提供依据。 Soft news is a term for all the news that isn’t time-sensitive（时效性）, including profiles of people, programs or organizations, etc. 软新闻：人情味较浓的社会新闻（社会花 边新闻、娱乐新闻、体育新闻、服务性新闻 等），形式上通俗，注重趣味性。它没有明 确的时间界定，多属于延缓性新闻，无时间 的紧迫性。它和人们的切身利益无多大关 系，向受众提供娱乐、开阔眼界、增长知 识、陶冶情操。 the content of the reported events e.g. economic news, political news. Sports news, entertainment news, technology news, obituary,