There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news repo
rts. We get them in newspapers, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels(新闻影片).
The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, fashions, sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people
and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very amusing.
A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subject. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas(引号).
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.
小题1:The easiest way to get today’s news is____.
A．to go to the cinema
B．to watch a color TV
C．to read today’s newspaper
D．to listen to the music over radio小题2:Newspapers sell well mainly because____.
A．They cost very little
B．They are easy to get
C．They have got pictures to go with new
s
D．They provide all sorts of news in them小题3:If you want to get enough information about yesterday’s traffic accident within a very short time, you’d better____.
A．read the first paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
B．start from the second paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
C．look through the whole news report in today’s newspaper
D．talk with people who have seen the accident小题4:This passage mainly talks about____.
A．different types of reports
B．news reports
C．happenings to people and their surroundings
D．the length of a news report
