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1、SelectedReadingsinEnglishPrintNewsMedia英语报刊选读WhyShouldtheNewsLanguagebestudied?ThecourseofselectedEnglishprintnewsreadingsintendstoimprovelearners’comprehensiveEnglishcapabilities,amongwhichareintensiveandextensivereading,familiarityofjournalisticEnglis
2、h,newstranslationandtheexpandingofthelearners’culturalknowledgeoftheEnglish-speakingcountries.InvariousEnglishexams,journalisticEnglishwillbegreatlyhighlightedinbothreadingandlisteningparts.Thus,asystematicalstudyofEnglishnewslanguagebecomesincreasingly
3、importantandnecessaryfortoday’scollegestudents.Newsenablespeopletobecomewell-informedabouttheimportanteventshappeninglocallyandglobally.Moresignificantly,newsreadersandlanguagelearnerscouldalsobemotivatedtogettofeelakindofadvancedthinkingandanalyticalst
4、ylebyfollowingthosewonderfulnewsarticlesprintedintheEnglishlanguagenewspapersandmagazines.Thefirstnewspaperswerewrittenbyhandandputuponwallsinpublicplace.TheearliestdailynewspaperwasstartedinRomein59BC.Inthe700’stheworld’sfirstprintednewspaperwaspublish
5、ed.Europedidn’thavearegularlypublishednewspaperuntil1609,whenonewasstartedinGermany.BackgroundknowledgeThefirstregularlypublishednewspaperintheEnglishlanguagewasprintedinAmsterdamin1620.In1621,anEnglishnewspaperwasstartedinLondonandwaspublishedonceaweek
6、.ThefirstdailyEnglishnewspaperwastheDailyCourant(每日新闻).ItcameoutinMarch1702.In1690,BenjaminHarrisprintedthefirstAmericannewspaperinBoston.Butnotlongafteritwasfirstpublished,thegovernmentstoppedthepaper.In1704,JohnCampbellstartedTheBostonNewsletter(波斯顿新闻
7、通讯),thefirstnewspaperpublishedintheAmericancolonies.By1760,thecolonieshadmorethanthirtydailynewspapers.Therearenowabout1,800dailypapersintheUnitedStates.Today,asagroup,Englishlanguagenewspapershavethelargestcirculation(发行量)intheworld.Butthelargestcircul
8、ationforanewspaperisthatoftheJapanesenewspaperAsahiDhimbun(朝日新闻).Itsellsmorethanelevenmillioncopieseveryday.英国报刊杂志介绍主要报纸简介(theinfluentialnewspapers)ABriefIntroductiontoBritishNewspapersandPeriodicalsTheFinancialTimes《金融时报》：1888年于
