文档介绍：English Newspaper and Magazine ReadingStyles?News ?Feature?Editorial新闻特写社论Hard newsSoft newsnews vs. feature? scope and purpose are different ?2. News emphasizes timeliness more than feature. ?3. Their structure is different ? writing style is different news vs. editorial? emphasizes facts while editorial aims to express opinions? 2. Their structure is different ? 3. Editorial attaches less importance to timeliness than news To glance at the headline?What would you do if you don’t have enough time to read the whole news article?Basic Features of News Headlines?Functions: ?Extract essence from news facts; make the page more lively?Special qualities of grammar:*Omission 省略*Tenses 时态*Voices 语态Omission?Omission of article . 37 Killed in Italian Plane Crash 37 Killed in an Italian Plane CrashOmission?Omission of “and”逗号代替连词“and”. Putin Says Russia, . Differ on Hamas Win --The Washington Post, , 2006, Page A19=Putin says Russia and . Differ on Hamas Win?“…… Our position on Hamas is different from that of the United States and Western Europe,” said Putin, speaking at an annual news conference in the Kremlin. “The Russian Foreign Ministry has never regarded Hamas as a anization. But this does not mean that we totally approve and support everything that Hamas has done……”Omission ?Omission of Pronoun . Ex-Postal Worker Kills 5, Then Self ---The Washington Post, , 2006,Page A03An Ex-Postal Worker Kills 5 and Then Herselfgo postal 因工作压力而行为失常(常有暴力倾向)开始采取暴力行动