Newspaper Reports
6 C+ }7 k/ P' d/ fThere are many type of reports. A report is simply __1__ of something that has happened. The commonest are __2__. We get them in newspapers, over radio and __3__ television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels.
# J. n( S4 s4 p' p0 SThe main purpose of a newspaper __4__ provide news. If you __5__ a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. The news __6__ everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very __7__.
5 a; Z! ~/ d! ^/ ^The big __8__ bold words above the news items are called headlines. Their purpose is to __9__ attention so that people will buy the newspaper because they want to read __10__ of the news., I* w' @3 H! |
A news report is usually very short, __11__ when it is about something very important, but it __12__ a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in __13__ a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information: what, when, where, how, why. The other paragraphs give __14__ of the subject. 0 ]* O8 |/ V8 k/ g% O0 y
There may also be interviews __15__ people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas.
8 h7 j; |, t6 {: M; KOften there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.0 u+ O+ Z3 d5 [4 }+ f+ Y
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8. A) or B) as well C) both D) also
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