报刊是反映大千世界的窗口，内容真实有意义，语言鲜活又具有时代性，颇为读者喜爱。但英语报刊新闻词汇涉及各个领域，有的句子较长，结构复杂，读者难免会产生畏惧心理。为了让英语学习者跨越从基础英语到新闻英语之间的“鸿沟”，轻松愉快地阅读英文报刊，编者丁西亚编撰了本书。《新闻英语》共10个单元，每单元的主要内容分为英语新闻导读、英语新闻材料选读、背景注释、词组和单词以及新闻英语词汇小知识等模块。

《新闻英语》(编者丁西亚)分10个单元，每单元包含英语新闻导读、3篇英语新闻材料选读，单词、词组和背景注释，以及新闻英语词汇小知识。

《新闻英语》可作为高等院校的选修课教材，也可供英语学习爱好者使用。

Table of Contents

Unit One World Cup 2010

Tense in the Headline

Story 1 Germany Dump Diego Maradona and Argentina Out

Story 2 Spain Survive Brutal Final to Become Champions

Story 3 Oracle Octopus Gets Own World Cup for Winning Streak

Jaw-dropping

Unit Two Haiti's Earthquake

Voice in the Headline

Story 1 Fierce Quake Devastates Haitian Capital

Story 2 The International Community's Responsibility to Haiti

Story 3 The Sad Math of U.S. Aid in Haiti: 6 Months, 2 Percent

Balloon

Unit Three Youth' s Life

Acronyms and Abbreviations in the Headline

Story 1 Teen Love Triangle at Center of New Twilight

Story 2 Handsome Chinese Vagrant Draws Fans of "Homeless Chic"

Story 3 Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot

Vie

Unit Four Spill Disaster of the Gulf of Mexico

Ellipsis in the Headline

Story 1 In BP's Record, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders

Story 2 U.S. Issues New Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

Story 3 BP：We'll Survive Spill Disaster

Metonymy

Unit Five Sleeper Spy

Rhetoric in the Headline

Story 1 Time to Wake Up, Sleeper Spy

Story 2 Russian Spy Ring (2010)

Story 3 Sources: Call by Russian Spy Chapman to Dad in

Moscow Led U.S. to Hasten Arrests

Reflection of New Concept and Terms

Unit Six Female Bombers

Function and Format of the Lead

Story 1 Russia's Fear of Female Bombers Is Revived

Story 2 Moscow Suicide Bombings: How the Internet Has

Changed the Face of Terrorism

Story 3 Dagestan: My Daughter the Terrorist

Loan Words in News Reports

Unit Seven Obama

Inverted Pyramid of the Body

Story 1 Text of Obama's Speech to West Point 2010 Cadets

Story 2 Election Results 2008

Story 3 Obama's Big Problems: Oil Spill, Afghanistan,

and Unemployment

Presence

Unit Eight Cbeonan Sinking

Pyramid Format of the Body

Story 1 Cheonan Sinking: Top Ten Conspiracy Theories

Story 2 N. Korea Says It’s Ready to Return to Nuclear Talks

Story 3 U.N. Council Condemns Attack on S. Korean Ship

Journalistic Terms

Unit Nine Military Challenges to China

Quotation Applied to English News

Story 1 U.S. and South Korea to Announce Joint Military Exercises

Story 2 PSLV Launch Successful, 5 Satellites Placed in Orbit

Story 3 Time to Prepare for China's Aircraft Carrier

Say

Unit Ten The Advent of New Age

Feature and Editorial

Story 1 NASA Hopes to Send a Craft into the Sun's Atmosphere

Story 2 Accepted Notion of Mars as Lifeless Is Challenged

Story 3 Flying Car & Swimming Robot

Euphemism

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