文档介绍：一
Selected Readings
in English Print News Media
英语报刊选读
Why Should the News Language be studied?
The course of selected English print news readings intends to improve learners’ comprehensive English capabilities, among which are intensive and extensive reading, familiarity of journalistic English, news translation and the expanding of the learners’ cultural knowledge of the English-speaking countries.
In various English exams, journalistic English will be greatly highlighted in both reading and listening parts. Thus, a systematical study of English news language es increasingly important and necessary for today’s college students.
News enables people to e well-informed about the important events happening locally and globally. More significantly, news readers and language learners could also be motivated to get to feel a kind of advanced thinking and analytical style by following those wonderful news articles printed in the English language newspapers and magazines.
The first newspapers were written by hand and put up on walls in public place. The earliest daily newspaper was started in Rome in 59 BC. In the 700’s the world’s first printed newspaper was published. Europe didn’t have a regularly published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.
Background knowledge
The first regularly published newspaper in the English language was printed in Amsterdam in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published once a week. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant (每日新闻). It came out in March 1702.
In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper. In 1704, John Campbell started The Boston Newsletter (波斯顿新闻通讯), the first newspaper published in the American colonies. By 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1,800 daily papers in the United States.
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