Japanese Enjoy a Long life

Good health is important to people. I read in papers that Japanese are the people who live the longest life in the world now. The average1 people live more than 80s. I am surprised at the news.     

HUMOUR AND JOKES

Good or bad news?One time an airline pilot said to his passengers:"Ladies and gentlemen,I have some bad news and some good news for you.The bad news is that we have a hijacker(劫机者)on board."On hearing this,some people got frightened and hid     

Features of English News Headlines

Nowadays Chinese people are attaching great importance to English news that not only offers worldwide information but gives a hand to English learners with their improvement in English.As is called the eyes of English news,headlines are partic ularly important.Generally speaking,English news headlines are precise,brief and as attractive as possible.They have their own grammar features and vocabulary features while different devices are employed to make them expressive and striking.     

A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Discourse

This paper aims to explore the underlying ideologies as well as the relationship between news discourse and ideology by analyzing a news report on Saddam Hussein's capture in New York Times from the perspective of critical discourse analysis. While making the analysis, this paper studies the details of linguistic features, transitivity, modality and thematic choice which are based on the three metafunctions of language proposed by Halliday in systemic-functional grammar, so as to reveal how news discourse is used by powerful groups to reinforce dominant ideologies, and to gain profound insights about the stance and attitude maintained in news reports.     

环球简讯

news 1Study: Acupuncture Can Ease Osteoarthritis PainNew research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows acupuncture can dramatically decrease pain among patients suffering from osteoarthritis. Unlike rheumatoid arthritis, which can affect people of any age and is thought to be an autoimmune disease, osteoarthritis is primarily a degenerative disease suffered by older individuals.研究表明针灸可减轻骨关节炎病人的疼痛     

An Analysis on the Cultural Factors that Affect People’s Perceptions:A Case Study

The intention of this present paper is to explore the relationship between culture and perception and the cultural factors that affect people’s perceptions from different cultural backgrounds. This study is based on a case, which is a news report about the cultural conflict between an old Chinese father and her daughter who has been living in Canada for eight years. Detailed information has been acquired by the author using relative books, journals as well as her own understanding and interpretation. It is concluded that to be aware of the cultural factors is of great importance to understand why people from different cultures have quite different perceptions toward the same thing, which can help to reduce the conflicts and misunderstandings in intercultural communication.     

A Study of English News from the Perspective of Transitivity

News is closely related with people’s lives and has the function of describing facts and conveying messages to the pub lic.News is required to be true,swift and accurate and has formed its own language system.Based on the experiential function theory of functional grammar and its main device-transitivity,this thesis analyzes the transitivity processes in the two disaster news samples and two celebrity news samples from New York Times.It will further prove the applicability and operability of transi tivity theory in news analysis.     

Theme-rheme Analysis of English News Headlines

As a special type of writing,news report has attracted more and more attention in different countries.Many people have developed an interest in reading English news,which provides them with timely information about important happenings around the world.Under the frame work of Systemic-Functional Grammar,based on English news headlines,the theme-rheme structure of English headlines is systemically analyzed in this thesis.Some detailed researches are made to investigate the influence of the Theme-rheme Structure in English news headlines.Then the news headline as well as its contents could be understood and enjoyed while reading newspaper.     

Mobile Phone TV Is the Next Big Thing

Mobile phone TV ,dubbed(被称为)the “Fifth M edia”,has not yet had an opportunity for rapid growth in China.Experts say it willtake some time for the new application to enter everydaylife.A report from IMSR esearch,a globalresearch firm ,says that by 2010 there will be 120m illion people watching TVprogram m es on m obile phones. M obilephone TV will becom e the “FifthM edia”,after newspapers,radio,TV s,and online news.A nalysts sayA sian custom ers have taken m ore readily to new m…     

On the Cohesion of English Entertainment News Discourse

With the rapid development of entertainment news, entertainment news has gained more and more attention in recent years. While previous studies have been mainly conducted from the perspective of journalism, the present study focuses on the cohesion strategies of the selected news discourse from the linguistic point of view. Cohesion is an important linguistic concept proposed by Halliday. This paper will analyze the news discourse from China Daily quantitatively and qualitatively. It is found that in the entertainment news discourse grammatical cohesive devices are commonly used. The present study attempts to analyze the cohesive features of English entertainment news, so as to help readers improve the efficiency in English news reading.     

人教新课标必修一 Unit 3 Travel journal读写训练步步高

一、完形填空阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Mr.Cronin has a clock shop in thecenter of the town.He tries his best to 1 itwell.He often receives the customers(顾客)2 and people like to buy 3 in his shop.It was a cold day and 4 people wouldgo out to do some 5.Mr.Black,one of Mr.Cronin’s 6,came to the shop.He knewthe man was 7 his miserliness(吝啬).But     

博客(英文)

A "blogger" is a person who writes on an Internet computer Web site called a "blog". The word "blog" is a short way of saying web log, or personal Web site. Anyone can start a blog, and they can write about anything they like. There are millions of blogs on the Internet today. They provide news, information and ideas to many people who read them. They contain links to other Web sites. And they provide a place for people to write their ideas and react to the ideas of others.A research com p…     

Systemic-Functional Grammar and English Extensive Reading

Systemic Functional Linguistics is known to people by its special functionalism and social meaning. The study of Systemic Functional Linguistics is also accepted by more and more people. In addition, it means a lot to the learning of lexis, English writing and extensive reading.     

Sounds

The world has many beautiful sounds. We can hear the songs of birds and the laugh of people. We can listen to cool music and news reports. And it＇s all because of our ears! They bring us a world of sounds.     

Grammatical Features of Journalistic English

1. Introduction Journalese is the language style that used in news reports and commentaries by the media, such as news- papers, journals, radios, TVs, and so on. It is required to be popular, economical, attractive and objective, be- cause it is unique in terms of readability, timeliness, times and culture. With the rapid development of science and tech- nology, journalism has become an indispensable part of modern human beings' life. It influences not only the outlooks and ideas of people bu…     

Differences in the Style of Two News Reports on the Same Issue

Obama’s bow in Japan triggers hot discussion.The news agency AFP and AP both report the issue.This paper focuses on the comparison of the two news reports about the same issue in lexical,syntactical and semantic level through textual analysis.Different styles are chosen by different news agencies and journalists in particular to construct social reality from their particular perspective.Study on the different styles used in the news report can help us hold a more objective view towards the news.     

优秀习作点评

请根据上图提示,用英语写一篇短文。先简要描写下图,然后再发表你自己的看法和意见。注意:1.词数:100左右2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯3.参考词汇:孤独(寂寞)get lonely学生习作:In the picture,we can see an old man and two birthday presents sent by hisdaughter and son.Yet the old man doesn’t feel happy.He is sitting on a sofaalone,thinking his children.Nowadays,most people are busy with their business so that they can’t sparesome time to see their parents.Some people think old people will be satisfied a…     

毒品报告

A new study examines drug use by young people in the United States. The study found that cigarette smoking among American teenagers dropped during the past year. The drop continues a general decrease in teenage smoking rates that started in Nineteen-Ninety-Six. American health officials praised the decrease as good news in the nation's     

A Cognitive Study on Conceptual Metaphors in English News Headlines

The headline plays an important role in news report, which is a guide for readers to have a quick understanding the information of news. The headline is the"eye"of the news and it often has a lot of metaphors. The traditional theory of metaphor holds that as a rhetorical means, metaphor is mainly employed in literary works, while the theory of cognitive metaphor holds that metaphor is pervasive in our thought, action and language. The paper will discuss and analyze the characteristics of metaphors in headlines by analyzing a large number of English news examples. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this paper attempts to help readers to better understand the use of metaphors in headlines.     

读写任务写作指导与话题预测

一、读写任务阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。There is a growing debate whether the examination should be abolished. Some people tend to maintain the examination because it plays an important part in our lives. Firstly, it can motive students to work hard. By preparing for the examination, students review what they have learn in order to master the knowl- edge. Secondly, the result of the examination can