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VOA News Item 1. 政治：战后多年韩国与美国检查指挥权移交The U.S. and South Korean militaries say they would fight a second Korean War, if it became necessary, side-by-side and seamlessly.For decades, their alliance has deterred a repeat of the North Korean attack of June 25th, 1950. Seoul has always agreed that U.S. forces would have command of South Korea's military if war re-ignites. But that is to change in April 2012, when Seoul assumes wartime operational control of its own forces, a step referred to as OPCON Transfer.VOA News Item 2. 社会：美国婴儿母乳喂养A new survey finds that three-quarters of U.S. newborns are breastfed beginning at birth. But the number of breastfeeding infants falls off rapidly during the first year of life.Seventy-five percent of babies started life breastfeeding, according to this latest Breastfeeding Report Card. That represents a slow but steady increase in recent years in the percentage of American infants who are breastfed.The new survey is for babies born in 2007, the most recent year available.The breastfeeding study comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A public health adviser at the agency, Carol MacGowan, says it's not enough for a new mom to want to breastfeed her baby."There's still a lot of practices that need to take place in the hospital to support the mother's decision to breastfeed." "So she may have decided to breastfeed, but if there's no support in place that helps her to continue that, then she may not even start."Hospital practices that encourage breastfeeding include putting the newborn skin-to-skin with the mother right after birth, and not offering infant formula or pacifiers.Although three out of four babies started life on their mother's milk, by the time they're six months old, just 43 percent were still breastfeeding. And by 12 months, only one baby in five was getting any breast milk.U.S. officials recommend babies be breastfed for the first year of life. The World Health Organization says breastfeeding should last two years.MacGowan says there are a number of reasons why American women don't continue breastfeeding. "Some of it is the community support; thus, we address the number of lactation professionals out there to help the women. A big barrier to women is working and breastfeeding. It's a perceived barrier in some cases. It's a real barrier in others."But despite the barriers, the underlying message is that breast milk is the right food for babies. Many studies have shown that infants who are fed breast milk are healthier." The benefits are multiple. Everything from prevention of certain infectious and chronic diseases ---respiratory, for example, being one, decreasing the severity of asthma, if they're prone to asthma---and chronic disease such as diabetes and obesity."Mothers benefit too. Breastfeeding lowers the risk of some cancers, naturally promotes spacing between pregnancies, and it costs less, too.VOA News Item 3. 政治：联合国大会致力于减少贫穷、饥饿和疾病The U.N. General Assembly's annual debate gets under way on September 23. Leaders andrepresentatives from all 192 member states are expected to address the gathering. In a long-established tradition, Brazil's president will open the debate, followed by the U.S. president as the leader of the host nation.This year's debate will be preceded by a three-day summit on the Millennium Development Goals. Some 140 presidents and prime ministers are expected to attend.The goals are meant to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that with the target date just five years off, many countries are in danger of not meeting the goals, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. But he said recently that with the right strategies countries can close those gaps.VOA News Item 4. 经济：印度货币有了新标志The search for a symbol for the Indian rupee began more than a year ago, when the government decided that the currency needed an identifiable symbol.After going through 3000 entries submitted in a national competition, a panel of bankers, officials and artists chose the new symbol. It is a mix of the Roman letter "R" and its Hindi equivalent in the ancient Devanagari script.Information minister Ambika Soni said the decision to have a symbol for the rupee is significant.VOA News Item 5. 政治：巴以第二轮直接和谈结束Secretary of State Clinton met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in Ramallah. There was no statement and no details of what, if any, progress might have been made after two days of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. President Abbas sounded positive in his remarks as he began his meeting with Mrs. Clinton.He says everyone knows that there is no alternative other than negotiating for peace.The Palestinian leader thanked the Obama administration for its commitment to mediating a peace deal. Clinton said the United States will press ahead with its efforts to bring about an agreement. “The United States and all of us led by President Obama are very committed and determined to work toward a peace agreement through direct negotiations that leads to an independent, sovereign, viable, Palestinian state that realizes the aspirations of the Palestinian people.”The talks began Tuesday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh. It was the second round of direct negotiations after a 20-month hiatus.Secretary Clinton then traveled to Amman in neighboring Jordan for a meeting and lunch with King Abdullah, before heading back to Washington.There are questions of whether the negotiations could last beyond the end of the month. The Palestinians have threatened to quit talks if Israel does not extend a self-imposed partial moratorium on construction inside Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The temporary freeze expires on September 26, and Israel has given no hint that it will extend it.The Palestinians say the presence of more than 100 Israeli settlements impede the establishment of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state.Militants in the Gaza Strip, which is not under the control of President Abbas' Palestinian Authority, oppose the negotiations with the Jewish State. They stepped up their attacks this week, firing anumber of rockets into southern Israel. Israel responded by launching air attacks inside the Gaza Strip.VOA News Item 6. 健康：感冒疫苗可降低心脏病风险Getting a flu shot can help prevent influenza. But now, a large study in Britain indicates that older adults who get an annual flu vaccination are less likely to suffer a heart attack.The study involved more than 78,000 people, age 40 and older.Researcher Niroshan Siriwardena of Britain’s University of Lincoln who led the study."Our research suggests that flu shots are associated with a reduction in relative risk of heart attack in adults by about 19 percent."The reduction was even higher - 21 percent - for people who got their vaccination early in the flu season.The results were mathematically adjusted to reflect the fact that people who are at higher risk for heart attack in the first place are more likely to get a flu shot.Although Siriwardena is careful to point out that his study is one of associations, not necessarily cause-and-effect, he does offer one possible link between the seemingly unrelated conditions of influenza and heart attack.VOA News Item 7. 政治：广播电台致力于赋权予巴勒斯坦女性Halla Bazzar, an attractive woman in her 20s, begins her afternoon show. For this young professional, the job is more than just running a show. It is about giving women living in conflict a key to success. "We talk about issues that would inspire women in the future."Giving women hope for the future is one of the goals of the station, Nisaa FM, which started broadcasting this month from the West Bank town of Ramallah.Founder and manager Maysoun Odeh tells VOA the station wants to entertain, but also empower women. "We broadcast success stories of women regionally, internationally, or locally in which they can take example from, and they know that they can do something and they can achieve something regardless of the situation."The day-to-day situation for many Palestinian women living under occupation involves supporting their children while their husbands are in prison, finding housing after their homes are demolished, and navigating their way through Israeli checkpoints.Wafa Abdel Rahman, a woman's activist with the West Bank group Filastiniyat, says Palestinian women also face cultural issues."We suffer, as the rest of the women in the Arab world suffer, political Islam - the interpretation of Islam, which actually, is putting more burden on the women." "It portrays women as if they are the key to the honor of the family. If you are a good Muslim or not depends on how is your woman. Is she covered? Is she following all the instructions, etcetera. This is really hard on women."Abdel Rahman welcomes the new station. "We need a radio that brings out all those issues." "But also to take it a step further and think how we can - not only women but also men - how we can together change the status of women and make it better."The station, whose name "Nisaa" means "woman" in Arabic began operations this month with the help of Smiling Children, a Switzerland-based humanitarian foundation.VOA News Item 8. 政治：波兰期望关闭决胜投票Sunday, Polish voters are choosing their new president from between two candidates. One is the Speaker of Parliament and Acting President Bronislaw Komorowski, from the governing center-right Civic Platform party. The other is Jaroslaw Kaczynski from the far-right Law and Justice party. Neither candidate was able to win an outright majority in the first round of voting June 20th.Kaczynski is running in the place of his twin brother, the late President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in April along with his wife Maria and 94 others in a plane crash near Smolensk, Russia. The crash moved the presidential election forward nearly four months.Before the first round of voting, opinion polls had placed Komorowksi firmly in the lead. But the results were closer than predicted, with only a five percent difference between the two men. Grzegorz Makowski of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs explains this surge of support for Kaczynski, saying he thinks the plane crash at Smolensk mobilized more conservative voters. If the crash had not happened, he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round."I am almost 99 percent sure that if it didn't happen, probably Lech Kaczynski would lose these elections in the first round," "I think it had a really strong impact on those who were passive. Maybe not on those who were against Kaczynski and they dislike him, it didn't change their opinions. But it made those who were passive, and those who were potentially supporters of Kaczynski, active. Because of Smolensk, I thinkthey started thinking that maybe we should be more conservative."Kaczynski has run an effective advertising campaign, and may well have gained ground over the last two weeks.At the moment, Komorowski's Civic Platform party controls parliament. Makowski says Kaczynski has played on his status as opposition leader by arguing that it could be dangerous for the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) to control both the Parliament and the Presidency."This is a very populist argument, but it works. People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, oh, we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma. "Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.At this point, most analysts agree that the race is too close to call. Final results are expected to be announced on Monday.VOA News Item 9. 政治：据报道俄罗斯科学家在与美间谍交换中被释放A lawyer for an imprisoned Russian nuclear expert, Igor Sutyagin, says her client was released Thursday from a jail in Moscow and flown to Vienna. Other reports say he will be transferred later into British custody.His family says his release is part of an exchange for suspected Russian agents detained last month in the United States in a high-profile case. Neither U.S. nor Russian officials have confirmed the reports.Sergei Markov, a deputy in the Russian State Duma from the ruling United Russia party, said he has heard the rumors of an exchange. He tells VOA that if such a thing occurs, it represents a kind of confession from both the United States and Russia."I think most important is that by exchange, both sides recognize that those arrested people - they are spies."Sutyagin was serving a 15-year prison sentence, after being convicted of sending classified information to a British firm that Russian authorities said was a front for U.S. intelligence.He and his family have repeatedly denied his guilt. His case has been championed by human rights groups who say he was unfairly persecuted by the government. But Markov says the United States has already confirmed he was a spy."It was a very big shock for some of the Russian human rights activists who protected Sutyagin for many years, repeating many times that he is, you know, a scientist who is being arrested by the KGB, by Putin, Putin is oppressing science and so forth."Meantime, the ten members of the alleged Russian spy ring operating in the United States are charged with conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents. They are accused of seeking to infiltrate U.S. policy-making circles and to gather information on U.S. political affairs. Nine of them are also charged with money laundering.An eleventh suspected was detained briefly in Cyprus, but went missing after being released on bail.VOA News Item 10. 政治：报道称2010年海盗袭击数量下降The coast of Somalia remains a major piracy hotspot, the location of more than half this year's pirate attacks. But International Maritime Bureau Director Pottengal Mukundan says the target area is widening."The fact is that the Somali pirates are ranging further out than they have ever done before. We are talking of going 1,000 nautical miles away from the coast in order to attack ships, board them, hijack them and then bring them back into Somalia until a ransom is paid for their release."The International Maritime Bureau recorded 196 piracy incidents in the first six months of the year - about 20 percent less than the same period last year.In the Gulf of Aden there were 86 pirate attacks in the first half of 2009 and 33 so far this year. Mukundan says foreign navies, which have operated in the Gulf of Aden since 2009, have been instrumental in reigning in piracy in the area. But he says piracy is more difficult to manage in the Indian Ocean."It is a huge, huge expanse of sea, very difficult for the navies to effectively monitor it and deal with it in the way it has been successfully dealt in the Gulf of Aden."He says he thinks by the end of 2010 the number of piracy attacks may match or even exceed the 2009 total."At the moment we are seeing a lull because of the southwest monsoons in the Indian Ocean, where these small pirate skiffs cannot operate, but the southwest monsoons will subside by the end of August and then we expect the pirates to be back there trying to seize the ships."According to the International Maritime Bureau report, the first half of the year has seen one crewmember killed, 597 crewmembers taken hostage, and 16 injured.。
英美报刊选读36新闻英语的分类 软新闻硬新闻
新闻英语的分类: 软新闻硬新闻硬新闻（Hard News）和软新闻（Soft News）是西方新闻界新闻业务中老生常谈的两个基本概念。
在英、美及澳大利亚大学新闻系的新闻写作教材中，硬、软新闻的分类之所以成为喋喋不休的话题，是因为对这两种新闻形式的科学区分直接涉及对新闻报道类别和写作方法的确认。
对此问题的宏观把握有着重大的理论和实践意义。
它们的主要分法是：将硬新闻和软新闻一分为二，在这两个巨大的框架之下对新闻文体进行分类，然后再研究导语和主干的关系。
这种两分法似乎可以这样概括：硬新闻：一种强调时间性和重大性的动态新闻形式，重在迅速传递消息。
软新闻：一种注重引起读者兴趣的新闻形式，重在引起受众的情感呼应。
比如愉悦或深思等，更多地强调人类兴趣。
二者之间的联系：都是新闻；新闻价值的诸种要素（如时间性、重要性、接近性等）都起作用。
二者之间的区别：1．要求重点不同：硬新闻重在迅速传递信息，强调时间性，多为动态新闻和现场报道。
软新闻重在引起读者兴趣和情感呼应。
2．尽管新闻价值和诸种要素都起作用（特别是时间和重大性），但硬新闻要求的程度较高，软新闻要求的程度相对较低。
3．写作方面：硬新闻有一定之规（在大多数情况下沿用倒金字塔结构）；软新闻则不拘一格。
硬新闻直接了当，简明扼要，形式简练，具有直接性；软新闻样式复杂，细节描写和记者感情色彩占据重要地拉，具有间接性。
硬新闻形式上基本是动态新闻，软新闻则有软消息和特写之分。
4．在新闻导语方面，硬新闻将最重要的事实放在最前面，要求开门见山，一语中的，概括新闻的中心。
软新闻导语则不拘一格，有较大的宽容性。
概而言之，新闻的基本形式是硬新闻和软新闻；它们的侧重点不同，导语和文体写作要求也不同。
由此出发，可以这样认为，硬新闻即动态新闻。
除动态新闻以外的新闻都可以划入软新闻。
软新闻是一个大类，其中包括不少品种，在西方新闻学中，它基本包括“软消息”（Brief soft news）和“特写”（Feature story）。
VOA Special English 广播节目简介
VOA Special English 广播节目简介美国之音（以下称VOA）的英语节目，按播音速度可分为两种：Standard English （标准英语）和Special English（特别英语）。
Special English 又叫“慢速英语”，是VOA专为全世界非英语国家初学英语的听众安排的一种简易、规范的英语广播节目。
该节目创始于50年代末期，是VOA的专家们研究如何与世界各地的英语学习者进行交际的产物。
它正式开播于1959年10月。
当时只面向欧洲和中东，但由于这个节目适合许多国家英语学习者的需要，所以它的广播对象不久就扩大到世界其他地区，并很快在全世界范围内产生了广泛的影响。
现在这个节目对欧洲、非洲和拉丁美洲每晚广播一次，对加勒比地区每晚广播一次（星期天除外），对东南亚广播次数最多，每天上午两次，晚上三次。
30多年来，VOA为了办好Special English节目，进行了大量的调查研究工作，对播音速度、内容及用词范围都作了具体规定，基本上达到了既能为英语学习者提供信息，又不损害英语本身风格的目的，使之成为VOA独具特色，拥有最大量听众的节目。
美国著名词汇学家S. B. Flexmer 指明了Special English的三条标准，也就是它所“特别”的地方：1、它是一种由美国人最常用的1500个基本单词为主体构成的美国英语；2、它用简短、明晰的句子写作和广播；3、它以每分钟90个单词的速度，即2/3的Standard English（标准英语）速度进行广播。
Special English的节目可分为两大类：一类是新闻节目；一类是专题节目。
1．新闻节目VOA Special English 的新闻广播向听众提供世界范围内的政治、经济、军事、外交、国际关系、宗教、天气以及各种重大事件和珍闻奇事等各个方面的信息，每天向东南亚地区广播五次，早上两次，晚上三次，每逢半点播出。
Special English新闻节目每次长约十分钟，大都播出十条左右新闻，近一千个单词，每条新闻多为一分钟，但偶尔也有长达两分钟的要闻。
VOA新闻50篇
VOA新闻50篇VOA News Item1经济：印度及东南亚国家签署了自由贸易协定Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations sealed the agreement in Bangkok Thursday.They met on the sidelines of the annual ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting.The agreement creates one of Asia’s biggest trading areas and integrates India’s fast growing economy with10of its neighbors.Trade between India and ASEAN amounts to$40billion each year.Under the pact,India and ASEAN will eliminate tariffs on various goods by2016.VOA News Item2政治：英国政党领袖进行电视辩论第二轮角逐Britain’s political life has been dominated for the past three decades by two parties—the Conservatives,now led by David Cameron,and Labor headed by current Prime Minister Gordon Brown.But a third party,the Liberal Democrats,are turning this election into a three-horse race.Their campaign was given a major boost by Britain’s first ever televised debate last week; Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg emerged as the clear winner.Viewer polls taken after this second debate,which focused on foreign policy,showed there was no runaway victor.The last time Britain had a hung parliament was in1974.A final televised debate is to take place next Thursday,followed by the election on May6.VOA News Item3政治：参议院就索托马约尔就任最高法院大法官进行了讨论On the second day of debate all signs continued to point toward an easy confirmation win for Sotomayor,the55-year-old federal court judge nominated by President Barack Obama earlier this year.Although most of the40Senate Republicans are likely to vote against her,the decision Wednesday of Missouri Senator Kit Bond added to the number of Republicans who have committed to voting for her.Senator Bond,who is one of several Republicans retiring from the Senate next year,said while he respects and agrees with the legal reasoning others in his party used to oppose Sotomayor, lawmakers have an obligation to show deference to a president’s choice of a nominee.VOA News Item4政治：南部非洲的部长们准备报告区域危机Foreign ministers of the Southern African Development Community met in Maputo to prepare a report on the region’s political crises.It is to be presented to African leaders at their upcoming summit in Ethiopia.SADC’s Political and Diplomatic Committee has been mediating three major crises in the region.SADC officials said the ministers are pleased the various parties to the unity government inZimbabwe resumed negotiations on implementing their power-sharing agreement.They said they believed Zimbabwe was on the right path.The officials said the ministers also believe that progress is being made toward easing the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and that reconciliation efforts between the government and various rebel groups were on the right track.But the officials said they were less optimistic about the political crisis in Madagascar.It erupted in March after Andry Rajoelina,backed by the military,seized power following the ouster of then-President Marc Ravalomanana.SADC and the African Union do not recognize the Rajoelina government and have suspended Madagascar from their organizations.VOA News Item5政治：以色列国防部长遭到恐吓Security has been tightened around Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak after he received dozens of death threats.Security sources say the threats were made by Jewish militants who oppose the government’s partial freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.The freeze was imposed in November under pressure from the United States,which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.The death threats are being taken seriously.In1995,Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by an Orthodox Jew opposed to his policy of trading land for peace with the Palestinians.VOA News Item6政治：泰国军警围捕红衫军领袖行动失败Government officials say they will investigate just how three leaders of the anti-government protests managed to escape when police tried to surround their hotel Friday.One of the leaders climbed down three floors using a rope,and was rushed away by supporters thronging the building.Officials earlier Friday said the government is preparing to arrest people linked to clashes with security forces last Saturday that left24soldiers and protesters dead.The government says armed men infiltrated protester ranks and fired on troops trying to disperse a rally.The anti-government movement,led by the United Democratic Front against Dictatorship or UDD,demands that the Government call fresh elections.UDD supporters have held protests in Bangkok for more than a month.Thailand is facing its most severe political crisis in almost20years.Some parties in the governing coalition want to set a clear time frame for elections to ease tensions.But the government says it will only call elections once the political situation has cooled.VOA News Item7政治：吉尔吉斯斯坦政变威胁美军基地未来Kyrgyzstan’s five-day-old provisional government is vowing to use the country’s military to launch a special operation to neutralize President Kurmanbek Bakiyev if he does not resign.Interim Kyrgyz leader Roza Otunbayeva says her government is willing to negotiate his departure from the country and wants to resolve the standoff without any more harm to innocentcivilians.The president was effectively ousted after last Wednesday’s clashes between government forces and protesters.Authorities say about80people have died and more than1,600were wounded.VOA News Item8政治：内塔尼亚胡称以色列只能依靠自己On the eve of Israel’s62nd Independence Day,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the nation must not rely on the help of foreigners.Commentators say it is a clear reference to Israeli ties with the United States,which have plummeted over Jewish construction in disputed in East Jerusalem.The U.S.backs Palestinian demands that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.But Israel sees all of Jerusalem as its eternal capital,and anyahu,who heads a right-wing government,has rejected U.S.demands to stop building there.As a result,the Palestinians have refused to return to U.S.-sponsored peace talks,and the diplomatic process has been deadlocked for15months.Defense Minister Ehud Barak took a softer approach.Barak said Israel would not make any compromises when it comes to the security of the state.But he said it would show courage in the struggle for peace with the Palestinians based on the two-state solution.VOA News Item9经济：非洲农民种植有机作物供应欧洲市场Nearly5,000farmers in Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Ghana,Senegal,and Sierra Leone are exporting organically-grown produce to Europe,after gaining organic and fair-trade certification with help from the U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO).The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion,increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.30small-scale pineapple farmers in Ghana saw sales grow from26tons to more than115 tons after gaining their organic certification.Pascal Liu is an economist with the FAO’s trade and markets division.Liu says the United Nations expects demand for organic foods will grow by between five and15percent during the next five years.And African farmers are well positioned to benefit from more people eating healthier food.VOA News Item10经济：债务危机扩展到希腊以外The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in Berlin Wednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials.The aim:to get agreement on a bailout package for Greece.Greece has been in negotiations with EU member countries and the IMF to secure a bailout —money that would allow it to pay debts coming due in time to avoid having to default.In return Greece is under pressure to restructure its economy and implement austerity measures.Disgruntled public-sector workers went on strike in Greece Wednesday to protest against thecutbacks.A daylong general strike has been called for next week.Opinion polls show the majority of Greeks are against an IMF-EU bailout,seeing it as foreign interference.Worries about the Greek economy’s potential meltdown have sent jitters through world markets.And help is imperative because the Greek crisis could spread.A joint EU-IMF package for Greece is put at$60billion,but some European officials said Wednesday the full cost could be much higher,reaching about$160billion over three years.VOA News Item11经济：奥巴马致华尔街：别抵制金融改革Aiming his appeal directly at the financial industry and skeptics within it,and at Republican critics in Congress,the president warned of the danger of a repeat of economic collapse.Calling the financial crisis the outcome of a failure of responsibility from Wall Street to Washington,he said the time has come to seize the moment to make fundamental changes in the rules of the financial road.With many,but not all,of the most prominent executives of Wall Street firms present,the president outlined key aspects of legislation the U.S.Senate will debate in coming days.These include steps to impose new oversight and controls on hedge funds and complex financial instruments known as derivatives,and protections for consumers of financial products.Of particular importance would be a system to ensure that troubled financial companies could be dismantled in an orderly way without posing the kind of systemic risk they did in2008.Calling the Senate bill and one the House of Representatives approved last year a significant improvement over flawed rules now in place,he said changes would be advantageous for the industry and the country.VOA News Item12经济：亚洲航空遭受冰岛火山喷发影响The International Air Transport Association says global carriers are losing an estimated$200 million a day in revenue as a result of airline groundings related to the Iceland volcano.Albert Tjoeng,a Singapore-based spokesman for the association,says that is just part of the problem.Travelers waiting around here are missing out on income because they cannot return to work.The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions for smaller Southeast Asia countries,where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.VOA News Item13经济：WFP对尼日尔粮食援助加倍The World Food Program is now expecting to feed more than1.5million people in next month’s general food distribution,along with specialized therapeutic feeding for500,000children under the age of six.That is because poor rains last year have brought forward the time when people no longer have enough to eat.WFP is trying to raise$182million to scale up its operations in Niger.The U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization is also stepping in to aid cattle herders in Niger and Chad.Livestock pastures are dry,so herders are selling their animals at lower prices to buy food for their families.Eight FAO projects in Niger worth more than$12million are aimed at helping two million people.VOA News Item14经济：立法者、反对者和媒体齐聚2010底特律车展Cobo Center is home to the2010North American Auto Show in downtown Detroit.For the event,the Center has been transformed into an expanse of flashy displays and trendy marketing displays,featuring the latest in automotive engineering.Known as the Detroit Auto Show,the annual event is one of the industry’s biggest.It helps generate publicity for some models,like the newly-redesigned Ford Focus,and it helps promote new technology,like the electric battery in the Chevrolet Volt.But in the wake of one of the worst years for U.S.automobile sales,this year’s show has a different feel.General Motors and Chrysler—two of the Detroit“Big Three”automakers,which also include Ford—went bankrupt last year and received billions of dollars in federal aid.Although some of that money has been paid back,the ernment is still a major shareholder in both companies.VOA News Item15经济：世博会在上海开幕China celebrated the opening of the2010World Expo in Shanghai with an evening of fireworks and fanfare.Dubbed the“Economic Olympics,”by Chinese officials,some190nations and50international organizations are participating in the multi-billion dollar event.Similar to how2008Beijing Olympic Games put the Chinese capital in the international spotlight,Shanghai’s hosting of the World Expo has given the city of20some million people and China a chance to showcase its emergence as a global economic power.The theme for the Shanghai World Expo is“Better City,Better Life”and features major exhibitions that look at modern and future urban life,and consider issues such as sustainable development and the interaction between cities and the environment.The Shanghai2010World Expo runs until the end of October.VOA News Item16经济：经济衰退已过，债务危机依旧First the good news:after contracting slightly in2009,global economic output is expected to grow more than4percent this year,according to the International Monetary Fund.With a fledgling recovery gaining strength,it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago,an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the1930s.In short,the pain,havoc,and economic devastation could have been far worse,according to the head of the U.S.Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,Texas,Richard Fisher.Addressing central bankers from Europe and elsewhere,Fisher said central banks and national governments averted catastrophe through aggressive intervention.VOA News Item17军事：以色列成功试射导弹防御系统Rocket alarms have terrified Israeli border communities near the Gaza Strip for years.Butnow Israel has a high-tech answer to the thousands of low-tech rockets that Palestinian militants have fired across the border since Israel pulled out of Gaza in2005.Israel has successfully tested its Iron Dome defense system,which uses cameras and radar to track incoming rockets and can shoot them down within seconds of their launch.The system was developed by Rafael,the Israel Military Industries,at a cost of$200million.VOA News Item18军事：美国正在尝试培训黑客来对抗罪犯和间谍Computer security engineer Alan Paller recalls how the Soviet Union’s1957launch of Sputnik,the world’s first artificial satellite,spurred the ernment to accelerate its lagging space technology program.Now Paller,research director at an educational company called the SANS Institute,is leading the campaign to bring that kind of energy to defending cyberspace from assault by pranksters,thieves and spies.VOA News Item19社会：挫败底特律机场袭击事件凸显以色列的安保成功It’s another day of stringent security checks at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport.About a million passengers pass through the airport each month,on average.But here,the lines move quickly thanks to what Israeli security experts say is an approach that—unlike other countries—relies more on eye contact with passengers and less on technology.VOA News Item20社会：意大利三名医生在阿富汗被捕The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province,due in part to its policy of treating all patients.Afghan officials said they detained three Italian Emergency workers Saturday,a doctor,a nurse and a logistics worker.Afghan officials said they were held as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to kill the governor of Helmand province.Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received $500,000as an advance payment for killing him.In total nine people,including six Afghans,were held after explosive suicide vests,hand grenades and other weapons were discovered in the storeroom of the Emergency-run hospital in Helmand’s capital,Lashkar Gah.Emergency founder Gino Strada denounced the detentions of the aid group’s three workers, calling it a mafia-style attempt to silence a witness.VOA News Item21军事：利比里亚人反对临时解除武器禁运政策The U.N.Security Council has lifted its arms embargo on Liberia for one year,primarily to allow its peacekeeping mission there to receive military equipment.But it also allows the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to acquire arms and training to fight crime.Government misuse of force under former President Charles Taylor brought about the arms embargo10years ago.Its lifting,even temporarily,has been met with both pride and worry among Liberians still recovering from a long civil war.VOA News Item22社会：非洲国家加强机场安全防范Reaction to the attempted bombing of a U.S.airliner on Christmas Day has been mixedamong the six African nations with direct air links to the United States.Ghana has announced it will install full-body scanners at Accra’s international airport by next month.Nigeria has also announced it will install the scanners at Lagos international airport.Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab departed from Accra and transited through Lagos and Amsterdam.He subsequently attempted to set off a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight traveling to Detroit.Abdulmutallab successfully passed through metal detectors and hand luggage searches at both airports,allegedly by concealing powdered explosives under his clothes.The full-body scanners are more powerful than metal detectors that are standard at most airports.They can detect non-metallic materials hidden on the human body.But some rights groups consider the scanners an invasion of privacy,because they show private physical characteristics in detail.South Africa,whose airports handle the largest number of travelers flying directly between Africa and the United States,says it does not intend to install the scanners at this time.VOA News Item23科技：美国将于周二发射发现号飞船The Discovery crew is set to launch early Tuesday to deliver nearly8,000kilograms of equipment to the International Space Station.NASA engineers cleared the shuttle to fly on Sunday, after deciding there were no technical concerns to delay launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters said the skies should be clear for the evening launch, but storms could delay the delicate process of filling the shuttle’s external fuel tanks.VOA News Item24科技：珊瑚礁在物种进化中的重要性A new study out this week highlights the role that coral reefs play in evolution,adding another reason to preserve these delicate,diverse,and often beautiful ecosystems.Many of the world’s coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification and pollution,among other things.Wolfgang Kiessling of Berlin’s Natural History Museum says that concerns ecologists because of the vital role reefs play in ocean ecosystems.VOA News Item25科技：澳大利亚、新西兰科学家挑战日本捕鲸业The researchers will set sail for Antarctica early next month,in an expedition funded by the Australian and New Zealand governments.The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan’s claims that whales have to be killed to properly study them.During their six-week voyage,researchers will employ a range of techniques to unlock some of the secrets of the giant marine mammals.They will fire darts from small air rifles to collect blubber and skin for genetic testing,and to attach satellite-tracking tags to monitor the whales.Samples of dung will also be gathered, photographs taken,and acoustic instruments will record the animals’distinctive calls.VOA News Item26医学：母亲越高，孩子越健康Taller mothers are more likely to have children who are healthier—indeed,their children are more likely not just to thrive,but to survive—compared to children of shorter mothers. That’s the conclusion of a massive new study of millions of children in low-and middle-income countries.“The key finding of this paper was to show a consistent association between maternal height and offspring health,which was mainly defined in terms of offspring mortality by age five and the risk of experiencing a failure in growth.”The Harvard researcher says that while the association is clear,the“why”still needs more work.VOA News Item27医疗：联合国帮助不发达国家对抗H1N1The World Health Organization is warning countries to prepare for further spread of the H1N1influenza pandemic in coming months.However,aid agencies say it will be more difficult to fight the disease in poorer countries, which have weak health systems,poor health status and limited resources.They say countries overburdened by diseases,such as HIV/AIDS,tuberculosis and malaria, will have great difficulty dealing with the surge of pandemic flu cases.World Health Organization spokesman,Paul Garwood,says this Call to Action aims to reduce the impact of H1N1by offering a range of measures applicable to all countries.VOA News Item28医疗：美国民众对医保体系缺乏信心Americans are just as divided on health care as they were before President Obama’s health care reform legislation became law.Protesters in Washington carried signs on Thursday calling for the repeal of the legislation. They say it represents runaway spending.A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that50percent of Americans oppose the new health care law and opposition is strongest among those64and older.Many older Americans worry that their care will be affected by cuts in federal payments to hospitals and other providers.In another survey,this one by Ipsos/Reuters,only51percent of Americans thought they could get adequate,affordable health care.The survey included people in22nations.Women, adults under the age of55and less educated people in all the countries included in the study reported low satisfaction with health care access.Yet another study showed that Americans without medical insurance,often delay going to a hospital after a heart attack.VOA News Item29教育：印度学生重新考虑去澳大利亚接受高等教育For nearly a decade,the popularity of Australian universities rose rapidly among Indian students,and the number of those heading to the country for higher education rose from about 10,000in2001to more than70,000last year.But that could change this year due to a string of negative publicity generated by attacks on Indian students in Australia.A travel advisory by the Indian government earlier this week warned that Indian students in Australia face an increased risk of assault.It was issued after an Indian graduate was stabbed to death in Melbourne.His stabbing came on the heels of a spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia in recent months,which the Indian media have dubbed as racist.It is a charge that Australian officials have strongly denied.They say the attacks are purely criminal,and the country is safe for foreign students.Nevertheless,as concerns rose in India,foreign minister S.M.Krishna called on Indians to assess their options while exploring the possibility of studying in Australia.VOA News Item30社会：法国调查电信员工自杀事件For some,the wave of suicides at France Telecom reveals the downsides of the scramble to stay competitive amid the pressures of globalization and the recent economic downturn.More than 40France Telecom employees have taken their lives since2008.Unions say that includes a dozen suicides this year alone.The probe by the Paris prosecutor’s office follows a court complaint filed by the union Solidaires Unitaires Democratic(SUD).Union lawyer Jean-Paul Tessionniere blamed working conditions at the company for the suicides.A February report by the French labor inspector’s office linked14France Telecom suicides directly to the company’s management practices.France Telecom denies its management practices have led to the suicides.France Telecom lawyer Claudia Chemarin told French television that each suicide will be examined individually. She said that under no condition can it be claimed that there was an organized policy that led to them.In March,France Telecom’s new boss Stephane Richard outlined ways the company planned to improve employee working conditions.France Telecom is not the only French company grappling with employee suicides.But because of the numbers of employee deaths and the media attention they have attracted,critics say France Telecom’s problems have emerged as a warning story about the downsides of valuing productivity and growth over employee well being.VOA News Item31社会：移民者抗议冻结约旦河西岸建设Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government’s freeze on construction in West Bank communities.Settlement leaders demonstrated outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem as the Cabinet held its weekly meeting.They carried signs saying,you can freeze in the North Pole,but not in Israel.The settlers helped elect right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,but now they accuse him of abandoning his nationalist ideals.VOA News Item32社会：密西西比的小城吸引大量游客The King of Rock‘n’Roll,Elvis Presley,was born75years ago last week in a two-room house in the town of Tupelo in the piney woods of the deep southern state of Mississippi.So this time of year,and again in August on the anniversary of the King’s death,pilgrimages of Elvis fansdescend upon that furniture manufacturing center of34,000people.Surprisingly,you don’t see a lot of Elvis markers there.There is one sign that says The King is Up Ahead,but that’s for an automobile dealership.Visitors can take a self-guided Elvis Presley driving tour.One stop is the Tupelo Hardware where Elvis got his first guitar.The folks there say Elvis had wanted a rifle.But his mother,Gladys would have none of it.She stood him on a keg and let him play around with a guitar.He loved it,and Mrs.Presley bought it for him for$7.95.VOA News Item33文化：很多人认为依地语正在消失A funny thing is happening in the world of language instruction.Only it’s not funny at all for one language in particular.Because of the growing importance of global commerce and contact,foreign language instruction is booming at U.S.colleges.But because of the tight economy,many colleges are eliminating fulltime language-teaching positions or filling them with cheaper lecturers who are not faculty members at all.This is the case at the University of Maryland’s flagship College Park campus,a prestigious state-run school in the eastern U.S..To save costs,the university plans to cut its one Yiddish-teaching position.It’s the latest blow in what has been a steady decline in the study and use of Yiddish,which began among European Jews in the Middle Ages as a conversational Germanic language that uses Hebrew characters.Today,Yiddish is struggling to survive.It’s thought that fewer than500,000people,mostly the elderly,speak it worldwide.Most young,acculturated Jews speak only their countries’principal language,plus Hebrew during worship.VOA News Item34自然：湄公河水坝威胁水生生命The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia,with the largest inland fisheries in the world.About40million people depend to some degree on the fisheries,worth about$2.5billion a year.But fisheries experts say plans by Cambodia,Laos and Thailand to build hydropower dams on the Mekong would block fish migration,threatening already endangered species. Environmental activists say plans by Laos to build a dam in the Don Sahong area near the Cambodian border could doom the nearly extinct Irrawaddy dolphin.VOA News Item35灾难：联合国加紧救援海地灾区Haiti is prone to disasters,but this huge quake is the worst to hit the Caribbean island state in two centuries.The7.0magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday destroyed much of the country’s capital,Port-au-Prince.The International Red Cross fears up to three million people may have been affected by the earthquake,which not only devastated the capital city,but many smaller nearby communities.The United Nations reports electricity has been cut off and communications are difficult.It says bridges have been knocked out,hospitals and care facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Haiti’s envoy to the United States estimates losses could run into the billions.。
普特慢速英语新闻听写版块导航
【普特慢速英语新闻听写版块导航】欢迎您来到PUT慢速英语(Special English，简称SE)听力训练版块。
VOA慢速英语（VOA Special English）是VOA播出的特别英语节目，内容分NEWS，REPORT，FEATURE，每天四个时段。
由于其语速慢，词汇量少，特别适合非英语国家的听众。
节目一经推出便受到广泛欢迎。
它是英语入门及提高的极好材料，对纠正您的发音，提高听力、口语及写作能力将会有极大的帮助。
本版块共设4个栏目：REPORT：节目长4分钟左右，题材涉及健康、教育、经济、农业等。
长度适中，内容广泛，特别适合刚开始练习英语听写的朋友，是本版块中最受欢迎的栏目，有众多网友参与听写。
除周日Words and Their Stories外，其他均有VOA官方标准文本以供参考，Words and TheirStories由本版版主整理标准文稿。
NEWS：VOA慢速英语新闻每天报道当天发生在世界各地的大事，节目长10分钟。
我们提供15:30时段的音频下载。
为了方便大家的听写后的比较，我们提供15:30的整理稿。
自2005年12月19日起，1530NEWS可以听写5分钟的内容，以“You are listening to the news in VOA Special English. ”为分界点。
斑竹在整理时会给出10分钟完整的整理稿.FEATURE：节目时长约15分钟，题材涉及科学探索，美国历史，美国人物，美国社会万象等，是了解美国历史、社会与文化的绝佳材料。
除周六的American Stories，其他均有标准文本供网友参考。
American Stories：'American Stories' 一直是Special English的经典节目，每周六播出，时间为15分钟左右。
VOA选用经典美国小说，进行缩略，具有时代气息和文化底蕴。
语速虽为慢速，但是要真正听懂实属不易。
VOA的时间,频道,小常识和频率表(北京时间,短波)
VOA的时间,频道,小常识和频率表VOA——Voice Of America，作为世界上最大的新闻广播机构之一，多年来，它的英语节目如“一部活的教科书”，帮助全球各地的英语学习者掌握现代英语的发展动向，培养准确连贯的英语语感，学习地道的英语语言。
下面我们将把VOA的英文广播的精彩时空展现在你面前，领你进入“原汁原味”美语世界。
一、VOA Special English (特别英语)节目评价1.1. 背景提示：Special English又叫“慢速英语”，是VOA电台专为全世界非英语国家的初学英语的听众安排的一种简易、规范的英语广播节目。
它始于50年代末，是VOA电台的专家们研究如何与世界各地的英语学习者时行交际的产物，开播之后迅速覆盖全球，在世界广泛内产生了广泛影响。
30多年来，VOA对Special English作了大量研究，目前，它的播音速度、内容及用词范围都有规定，达到了既能为听众提供信息又不损害英语本身风格的目的，使之成为VOA独具特色，拥有最大量听众的节目。
概括起来，Special English 特别于以下三点。
☆词汇量较严格地限定在美国人最常用的1500个基本单词内。
☆句式简单，清晰。
☆语速约为90 words/min，即2/3的Standard English速度。
1.2 Special English两大营地：新闻节目News Programs 专题节目Feature Programs1.2.1. Special English的新闻广播向听众提供全球的政治、经济、军事、外交、国际关系、宗教、天气以及各种重大事件和珍闻奇事等各个方面的信息。
每次节目长约十分钟，播十条左右的新闻，总词汇1000左右，新闻单长1～2分钟。
除头条新闻外，每条新闻都由一个电头引导，结构分明，条理清晰，适宜初学者。
节目结束之前，播音员常常用三、四句话重播其中三条新闻的提要，以加深听众印象。
慢速新闻每天向东南亚地区广播五次，朝二暮三，每逢半点准时派送。
英语四六级新闻听力常考题材
英语四六级新闻听力常考题材英语四六级新闻听力常考题材导语：新闻听力是四六级英语考试中的重要一项，小伙伴们一起来看看小编为大家带来的“英语四六级新闻听力常考题材”吧~希望对大家有所帮助哦!首先，本文适用于四级和六级考生，原因如下：1. 新闻听力并不是四级听力独有的，也不是新题型;六级听力曾在2009年6月和2010年6月的短文听力中考过新闻听力。
2. 官方六级讲座听力(新题型)样题第二篇来自2010年10月的VOA。
新闻听力常考8大题材如下：1. 气象/灾害2. 军事3. 健康/环保4. 罪案5. 事故6. 经济7. 政治8. 文化体育真题举例六级2009年6月短文听力Passage 3是日本火车相撞(train crash)的新闻，而2010年6月的考到的六级短文听力Passage 1是一篇关于plane crash(坠机事故)的报道。
这两者都属于事故类新闻报道。
再来看16年6月刚刚考过的.四级听力，新闻部分第一篇是关于国际劳动组织关于失业问题的报道，第二篇讲的是速食品需要在包装上标明卡路里含量，最后一篇则讲的是创新在商业中的应用。
题材分别是经济和健康。
样题中呢，四级新闻听力三篇分别是肯尼亚汽车爆炸事件、Woolworths欠债以及开罗空气污染;题材分别是罪案、经济和环保。
那么，在做题时，我们如何通过选项来辨识出文章题材呢?首先，我们来看看新闻听力的选项特点。
1. 选项具有时效性2. 选项具有灾难性如2010年6月的passage 1的选项：26.A) It carried passengers leaving an island.B) A terrorist forced it to land on Tenerife.C) It crashed when it was circling to land.D) 18 of its passengers survived the crash.听前预读时，我们横读和竖读扫读选项，可以发现BCD选项中反复出现了crash(坠毁)，survive(幸存)以及terrorist(恐怖分子)，可以推断这是罪案或事故类的新闻报道。
VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表
VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表1. 引言VOA〔Voice of America〕特别英语节目是针对全球学习英语的听众而设计的一系列教育性节目。
为了帮助听众更好地理解和运用英语，VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表被创立。
2. 词汇表分类VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表按照字母顺序分为26个类别，每个类别代表一个字母。
A. Animals〔动物〕B. Business〔商业〕C. Computers〔计算机〕D. Daily Life〔日常生活〕E. Education〔教育〕F. Food〔食物〕G. Geography〔地理〕H. Health〔健康〕I. Internet〔互联网〕J. Jobs〔工作〕 K. Language〔语言〕 L. Law〔法律〕 M. Music〔音乐〕 N. Nature〔自然〕 O. Olympics〔奥运会〕 P. Politics〔政治〕 Q. Quotes〔引语〕R. Religion〔宗教〕S. Sports〔体育〕T. Technology〔技术〕U. USA〔美国〕 V. Vehicles〔交通工具〕 W. Weather〔天气〕 X. X-Ray 〔X光〕 Y. Yoga〔瑜伽〕 Z. Zodiac〔星座〕3. 词汇表使用方法VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表可以用作学习资源，帮助学习者扩展词汇量并提高听力和阅读理解能力。
以下是几种使用方法：3.1 浏览学习者可以浏览VOA特别英语节目官方词汇表，了解各个类别中涵盖的词汇。
这有助于学习者了解不同主题的英语词汇，并将其应用于实际场景中。
3.2 听力练习学习者可以选择一个特定的字母类别，然后使用该类别中的词汇进行听力练习。
他们可以找到与所选字母类别相关的VOA特别英语节目，并聆听这些节目中的词汇。
3.3 阅读理解学习者可以选择一个特定的字母类别，然后使用该类别中的词汇进行阅读理解练习。
他们可以阅读包含所选字母类别相关词汇的文章或故事，并理解其中的内容。
voa 慢速职场英语
voa 慢速职场英语
美国之音（Voice of America，简称VOA）慢速英语节目包括一系列主题，其中也包含有关职场英语的内容。
这些内容主要以慢速、清晰的语速进行讲解，旨在帮助英语学习者提高听力理解能力。
以下是一些可能与职场英语相关的VOA慢速英语节目主题：
1.Business Report：该节目可能涵盖有关商业和职场的新闻、趋
势和分析。
2.Economics Report：可能包括关于经济和就业市场的报道，对
职场相关的经济现象进行解读。
cation Report：如果有与职业培训、教育和就业相关的主
题，可能会在教育报告中涉及。
4.Workplace Issues：可能有关于工作场所问题的报道，包括职
业发展、职场文化等方面的内容。
5.Technology Report：如果有关于科技行业和职业的重要新闻
或趋势，可能在科技报告中有所涉及。
请注意，具体的VOA慢速英语节目内容可能根据时间和新闻事件的变化而有所调整。
建议您访问VOA的官方网站或通过相关应用程序查找最新的慢速英语节目，以获取最准确和最新的信息。
适合少儿的voa英语
适合少儿的voa英语VOA（Voice of America）是美国国际媒体机构，其英语节目涵盖了各个领域的新闻、故事、文化等内容，对于少儿学习英语也有一些适合的节目。
以下是我从多个角度给出的回答：1. VOA Learning English: VOA Learning English是专门为学习英语的非母语人士设计的节目，包括新闻、故事、词汇、语法等方面的内容。
它使用简单的词汇和语言结构，适合少儿学习。
这些节目通常会提供课文、音频和练习，帮助孩子们提高听力、阅读和口语能力。
2. VOA News for Kids: VOA News for Kids是专门为儿童设计的新闻节目，内容包括国内外的时事新闻、科学技术、环境等领域。
这些节目使用简单明了的语言，通过有趣的方式向孩子们介绍世界各地的新闻事件，帮助他们了解和关注国际事务。
3. VOA Special English: VOA Special English是一种特殊的英语授课方式，使用简单的词汇和慢速语速，适合非母语人士学习。
这些节目通常涵盖各个领域的主题，包括科学、历史、文化等，对于少儿学习英语也很有帮助。
4. VOA Kids' Time: VOA Kids' Time是一档面向儿童的广播节目，内容包括故事、音乐、游戏等。
这些节目使用简单的语言，以儿童喜欢的方式呈现，帮助孩子们培养英语听力和表达能力。
5. VOA English in a Minute: VOA English in a Minute是一系列短小精悍的英语学习视频，每个视频介绍一个常用短语或表达方式。
这些视频以简洁明了的方式解释词组的含义和用法，对于扩大孩子们的词汇量和提高口语表达能力很有帮助。
总结起来，VOA提供了一系列适合少儿学习英语的节目，包括VOA Learning English、VOA News for Kids、VOA Special English、VOA Kids' Time和VOA English in a Minute等。
voa慢速英语短篇新闻
voa慢速英语短篇新闻VOA慢速英语短篇新闻通常包含一些简短的故事和新闻，旨在帮助英语学习者提高语言水平。
这些新闻通常涉及日常生活、文化、历史和社会事件等方面，通过慢速的语速和简单的语言，使学习者更容易理解和学习。
以下是一个典型的VOA慢速英语短篇新闻示例：Title: The Power of FriendshipOnce upon a time, there was a young girl named Alice who had a best friend named Bob. They met at school and quickly became inseparable. Alice and Bob shared a love of music and spent many hours playing their guitars together.One day, Alice learned that she would be leaving the city for a few months to visit family. She was very sad and didn't want to leave her friend behind. Before she left, she gave Bob a special gift - an acoustic guitar with their initials on it.When Alice returned, she found that Bob had learned to play theguitar and they could now play together even more than before. The power of their friendship had brought them closer together and made their bond even stronger.这个短篇新闻讲述了一个关于友谊的故事，通过慢速的语速和简单的语言，使学习者能够更容易地理解和学习。
新闻材料的类型
新闻材料的类型
新闻材料（news material）是指供记者和媒体使用的各种信息素材和文稿。
一般可分为以下几种类型：
1. 新闻稿（news release）：也叫新闻稿件，是由企业、政府、社会组织等发布的新闻文稿，通常用于宣传自身的新闻事件、产品、服务等内容。
2. 新闻快讯（news flash）：是一种快速、简短、及时的新闻报道形式，通常用于报道突发新闻事件或重大新闻事件的最新进展。
3. 新闻特写（news feature）：是一种深度报道形式，不同于常规新闻报道，更加详尽描述新闻事件的内容，通常会对事件的深层次背景、影响、原因等进行探讨。
4. 专题报道（special report）：是一种系统、全面、深入的新闻报道，通常涉及到某个领域或某个具体问题，内容涵盖多个方面，以解析事件为主。
6. 独家新闻（exclusive news）：是指某个媒体机构独家报道的新闻，具有独特的新闻价值，具有良好的专业性和影响力。
新闻听力分类词汇
新闻听力分类词汇1.政治关系类（国际间外交或国内的政治）2.经济贸易类（国内国际间经济贸易发展及往来）3.军事武力类（国内国际间的一些重要事件或冲突）4.灾难类（全球范围内发生的重大自然灾害或人为灾害，如：地震、海啸、火山喷发、气象灾害、疾病、交通事故、爆炸等。
数字、地名及灾害术语频繁出现）Unit 1 综合类♦Veteran adj.经验丰富的♦Indictment n.起诉书♦Sideline v.迫使退出♦Left-of-center adj.左翼的♦Plummet v.垂直落下♦Win the post 赢得职位♦A political funding scandal 政治献金丑闻♦Hedge adj.【商业】套期保值的~fund 对冲基金♦Derivative n.衍生物♦Dismantle v.拆开♦Flawed adj.有缺陷的♦Lobbyist n.说客♦Provision n.规定♦Blast n.爆炸♦Debris n.碎片♦Evacuate v.疏散♦Colonel n.陆军上校♦Radiological adj.辐射的♦Decontaminate v.清除有害物质，排除….的污染♦Mock adj.模拟的♦Shell-shocked adj.心有余悸的♦Inflict v.使遭受♦Seismic adj.地震的♦Grim adj.糟糕的，恐怖的♦Litter v.乱扔东西♦Fleck n.微粒♦Precision n.精度♦Grant n.拨款♦Hurtle v.碰撞♦Millimeter n.毫米♦Maneuver v.控制♦Chunk n.厚片♦Skyscraper n.摩天大楼♦Olympiad n.奥林匹克运动会♦Futuristic adj.未来派的♦Velodrome n.室内自行车赛场♦Overshadow v.使失色♦Re-energize v.使恢复活力♦Gear up 增速，准备♦Celebrity n.名人~status 明星般的地位（比喻某物受欢迎或火热的程度）♦Dubai n.迪拜（阿联酋的酋长国之一）♦Simplicity n.简明♦Deployment n.调度♦Embrace v.接受♦Appa bbr.应用程序(application)♦Permeate v.遍布Unit 2 政治关系类♦Diplomatic relations 外交关系♦Break off 中断♦Recall 召回♦Sanction 制裁♦Unilateral 单边的♦Bilateral 双边的♦Multilateral 多边的♦Boycott 联合抵制，联合排斥某国货物♦Embargo 禁止船只出入港口，禁运♦Interventionism 干涉主义♦Embassy 大使馆♦Ambassador 大使♦Mediate 仲裁，调停，斡旋♦Moderate 缓和moderator 仲裁人，主持人♦Consulate 领事馆♦Sovereignty 主权♦Autonomy 自治autonomous 自治的♦Anonymous 匿名的♦Referendum 公投♦Fundraising 筹款♦Repatriate 遣返♦Extradite 引渡♦Dereliction of duty 渎职♦Briefing 简报会♦V ote down 投票反对♦Abdicate 退位，放弃（职位，权利）♦Reconcile 和解Outcome n.结果Legacy n.前人留下来的东西，遗志Combative adj. 好斗的Conciliatory adj.调和的Televise v. 用电视播放Runoff n.决定性竞选Gunfire n.炮火声Dictatorship n.独裁Decree n.法令Seal off 封锁Illegitimate adj.非法的Backdrop n.背景Disclosure n.败露Infuriate v. 激怒Claim n. 索赔（新闻中指消费报销） Manure n. 粪Plug n.塞子Frivolous adj.轻率的Revelation n. 揭露Climate n.气候；趋势，风气Convention n. 公约Flesh out 使充实Emission n. 排放Cap v. 覆盖Celsius adj.摄氏的Endorse v.签署Byproduct n.副产品Fossil adj.化石的Cyber adj.网络的Term v.把…称为Counter v.对抗Fraud n.诈骗Forgery n.伪造Subtle adj.精细的Lump v.归在一起Defamation n.诽谤Mischief n.伤害Dismally adv. 差劲地Proxy n. 代理Intellectual n. 知识分子Usher v.引领~sb. in/into sth.Frontrunner n.领先的人Pentagon n.五角大楼（指代美国国防部） Massacre n.大屠杀Sequence n.序列Flaw n.瑕疵Imam n.伊玛目（伊斯兰领袖的头衔）Alleged adj.所谓的，被断言的Unit 3 经济贸易类♦Recession 工商业之衰退，不景气♦Market 使上市♦Insolvent adj.破产的♦Sponsor 赞助，赞助人♦In the red 赤字，亏损♦In the black 黑字，盈余♦Tertiary industry 第三产业♦NASDAQ index 纳斯达克指数♦Dow-Jones industrial average 道琼斯工业指数 Legislation n.法律Shrink v.使缩小Shortfall n.缺少Utmost adj.最大的Left-leaning adj.左倾的Slumber v.微睡Tip n.末端Peninsula n.半岛Waterfront adj.滨水区的Undisputed adj.无可争辩的Household adj.家喻户晓的Blight v.破坏Slum n.贫民窟Comeback n.复原ESPN abbr.娱乐体育节目电视台Blu-ray n.蓝光技术Planetary adj.行星的Earthbound adj. 地球上的Batter v.连续猛击Fledgling adj.无经验的Overhaul n.彻底检查Catastrophic adj.灾难的Evaporate v.消失Bipartisan adj.两党的Stated-owned adj.国有的Carrier n.运输公司Rack up 获胜At the helm 【习语】担任某一组织等领导人 Bidding n.【经】投标Breed v.引起Malleability n.可塑性Formulate v.规划Unit 4 军事武装类♦Weapons of mass destruction 大规模杀伤性武器♦Biochemical weapons 生化武器♦Garrison 守卫，驻防♦Arsenal 兵工厂，机械库♦Station 驻扎，配置♦Shell 炮弹♦Cruise missile 巡航导弹♦Grenade 手榴弹♦Bombard 轰炸♦Mine/landmine 地雷♦Artillery 炮兵部队♦Assault 攻击♦Armored vehicle 装甲车♦Personnel carrier 运兵车♦Snipe 狙击♦Paratrooper 伞兵♦Exchange fire / shootout 交火♦Sporadic shots 零星战斗♦Retaliation 报复，报仇♦Dissolve 解散（军队），裁剪disband♦Disarmament 裁军♦Warlord 军阀♦Demilitarize 解除武装，废除军备♦Caretaker government 临时政府♦Interim/transitional government 过渡政府♦Territory 领土♦Dispatch 派遣（军队）♦Logistic 后勤的♦Maneuver v.调动，演习♦Beret 贝雷帽。
英文文章类型
英文文章类型
英文文章类型主要可以分为以下几种：
1.新闻报道（News Reporting）：新闻报道通常用于报道最近发生的事件，包括政治、经济、社会、文化等方面的新闻。
新闻报道的特点是内容简明扼要，客观中立，语言风格简洁明了。
2.社论（Editorial）：社论是报纸或杂志上的评论文章，通常由编辑或主编撰写，表达对某个特定问题的看法或观点。
社论通常具有鲜明的立场和观点，语言风格较为正式和庄重。
3.特写（Feature Story）：特写是一种深入报道某个特定人物、事件或话题的文章，通常包含大量的细节和背景信息。
特写通常具有趣味性和吸引力，语言风格较为生动形象。
4.调查报道（Investigative Reporting）：调查报道是一种对某个特定事件或问题进行深入调查和分析的文章。
调查报道通常需要收集大量的信息和证据，语言风格较为严谨和细致。
5.评论（Review）：评论是一种对某个特定书籍、电影、音乐等作品进行评述和评价的文章。
评论通常包含作者的个人看法和感受，语言风格较为主观和个人化。
6.说明文（Exposition）：说明文是一种对某个特定概念、理论或过程进行解释和阐述的文章。
说明文通常包含大量的事实和数据，语言风格较为客观和中立。
7.游记（Travelogue）：游记是一种描述作者旅行经历的文章。
游记通常包含大量的描绘和情感色彩，语言风格较为生动和形象化。
以上是英文文章的一些主要类型，每种类型的文章都有其独特的特点和要求。
VOA Special English收听指南
新闻听力技巧
(1)掌握新闻报道的结构,新闻报道往往采用 “倒金字塔体”。 (2)扩大词汇量，熟记新闻报道中的常用词 汇。 ①普通词汇。 ②专有词汇。 (3)掌握一定数量的缩略语(acronym)。 (4)掌握数字的不同读法 (5)掌握循序渐进，从慢到快的原则 (6)要密切注意国内外形势的变化
The Making of a Nation Words And （建国史话）
Their Mosaic（美 AmericanStories 国万花筒） （词语掌故）
American Stories（美 国故事）
VOA Special English 节目播出日程安排
星期一 Development Report This is America
星期五 Environment Report（已停播） Economics Report American Mosaic
星期六 In the News American Stories 星期日 Words And Their Stories People in America
VOA Special English ish的节目可分为两大类 新闻节目 专题节目 1. 每五分钟一次的专题 2. 每十五分钟一次的专题
People in America（美 Science Report 国人物志）
This Is America（今日 美国）
（科学报道）
Agriculture Science in the News Report（农业报 （科学新闻） 道） Explorations（自然探索）
星期二 Agriculture Report Science in the News
VOA Special English 节目内容题材广泛
VOA Special English 节目内容题材广泛，如果能坚持长期学习，你不仅能扩充知识面，增加词汇量，提高阅读能力，还能在潜移默化中提高写作水平。
那么你是怎么样使用VOA S pecial English 来学习提高英语水平的呢？这次讨论的目的在于发现常见的错误的学习方法，总结出一套行之有效的最佳VOA Special English 学习方法，欢迎大家积极参与讨论！最佳实践一：用VOA Special English 练听力网站上提供的VOA Special English 节目文本是配有MP3声音的，声音文件由美国本土资深专业播音员录制，如果想有效提高自己的英语听力，VOA Special English 节目资料将是非常好的听力练习素材。
而最快最有效的提高英语听力的方法就是做听写，怎么听呢？下面分几个层次介绍听写的方法。
（一）初级英语水平学生（相当于高中英语水平）做听写的方法1、从/broadcast/ 在线广播频道下载MP3音频到到电脑里（包括下载report的MP3录音和文本），准备好一本英汉词典或电子词典2、认真阅读report文本一至两遍，遇到不懂的单词请立即查词典。
3、将文本放在一边，开始听report的MP3录音，并将听到的写下来，就是做听写练习。
一直循环播放，尽可能的将自己能听写出来的，全部写出来。
4、将自己的听写稿和原稿对照，找出没有听写出来的词句，并标上记号，这些没有听出来的词句可能很简单，但事实是你没有听写出来，这些就是你听力的盲点，所以要特别留意。
5、再反复地听report的MP3录音，这次不用纸笔听写，而是在脑袋里做听写，就是指当你听到一句的时候，脑袋里把这一句给拼出来，确保听清每一个词句，并留意你在听写时没有写出来的词句的发音。
6、第二天再听上面的report的MP3录音，并采用上面第5点所用的听法。
第四天再听上面的report的MP3录音，等到第七天再听几篇，仍采用上面第 5点所用的听法。
英语新闻体裁分类
英语新闻体裁分类1. News Genre Classification in EnglishThe news genre can be classified into different types based on their content and purpose. Some common news genres include:1.1. Hard NewsHard news refers to news articles that report on timely and significant events. These articles focus on facts and provide information about events such as political developments, natural disasters, and crime. Hard news is typically presented in a straightforward and objective manner, without the author's opinion or commentary.1.2. Soft NewsSoft news, also known as feature stories, focuses on human interest and entertainment. These articles often cover lifestyle, arts, culture, and celebrity news. Soft news stories are more subjective and may include personal anecdotes, opinions, and interviews with individuals involved in the story.1.3. Investigative ReportingInvestigative reporting involves in-depth research and analysis to uncover and report on issues of public interest. This type of news genre often exposes corruption, misconduct, or wrongdoing in various sectors, such as government, business, or healthcare. Investigativereporting requires extensive research and fact-checking to support its findings.1.4. Opinion PiecesOpinion pieces, also known as editorials or columns, express the author's viewpoint on a particular issue or topic. These articles are subjective and often reflect the opinions of the publication's editorial board or individual journalists. Opinion pieces aim to persuade or influence readers by presenting a particular perspective on current events or social issues.1.5. Feature StoriesFeature stories are long-form articles that provide in-depth coverage of a specific topic or event. These stories often include human-interest angles, personal narratives,and detailed analysis. Feature stories allow journalists to explore complex issues and present a comprehensive view of the subject matter.2. 新闻体裁分类的中文回答新闻体裁可以根据其内容和目的进行分类。
VOA特别英语文化聚焦（四）
美国的和平志愿者团体DATE=3-12-01TITLE=THIS IS AMERICA #1055 - The Peace CorpsBYLINE=Jill MossVOICE ONE:The (1)Peace (2)Corps is an (3)agency of the United States government. It has improved the lives of many people around the world. And, it has changed the lives of many Americans. I'm Shirley Griffith.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. The story of the United States Peace Corps is our report today on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.(THEME)VOICE ONE:The Peace Corps is (4)celebrating its fortieth (5)anniversary this year. The very first American Peace Corps workers arrived in the city of Accra, Ghana, in Nineteen-Sixty-One. They were volunteers. They had agreed to work for almost no pay. They would spend two years in Ghana helping to make life better for poor people.The Peace Corps (6)volunteers lived and worked in much the same way as the (7)Ghanaians they helped. They ate Ghanaian food. They spoke the local language. They followed local (8)customs. And they learned what few Americans knew: the reality of life in a (9)developing country.VOICE TWO:In the forty years since then, more than one-hundred-sixty-thousand Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers. They have lived in one-hundred-thirty-four developing countries.Peace Corps volunteers have taught millions of students. They have planted crops and trees. They have started health care centers. They have built village water systems. They brought chicken farming to India. And they helped end malaria in Thailand and (10)smallpox in (11)Ethiopia.VOICE ONE:Today, the Peace Corps has more than seven-thousand volunteers working in seventy-six countries. They are working in (12)agriculture, (13)economic development, education, the (14)environment and health care.Peace Corps agriculture programs are (15)designed to teach people how to grow food without (16)damaging the land and other natural (17)resources. In parts of central Africa, for example, volunteers taught farmers how to raise fish in fresh water areas. In (18)Thailand, volunteers taught farmers how to improve soil conditions.VOICE TWO:The Peace Corps also has economic development programs. Volunteers provide advice and training to help small businesses develop. They work with business owners, trade groups, (19)community leaders and local governments. In Albania, for example, volunteers helped small stores, eating places and hotels improve their businesses.In Vanuatu, volunteers helped develop a new computer system for the country's main bank. Almost forty percent of Peace Corps volunteers serve as teachers. In Armenia, for example, a volunteer worked with a local radio station to develop programs to teach English to more people. In Nepal, volunteers helped students write books about their lives, (20)culture and communities. The students sold their books to help earn money for school supplies.VOICE ONE:Peace Corps volunteers also help people protect and improve the environment. In Costa Rica, volunteers taught methods of planting trees to twenty-five-thousand farmers. In Sri Lanka, volunteers worked with a local environment organization to protect wetland areas.Volunteers also help provide health care around the world. In Nicaragua, volunteers developed health education programs about preventing such diseases as cholera, malaria, and AIDS. In many African countries, they have organized programs to give children (21)vaccine medicines to protect them from disease.((MUSIC BRIDGE))VOICE TWO:President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps soon after taking office in Nineteen-Sixty-One. The new program gave Americans the chance to answer the call to service that President Kennedy made in his (22)inaugural speech. He said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for you country." Most of the first Peace Corps volunteers were young people. They had just completed university studies in general subjects. About half of these first volunteers taught English or health care.The Peace Corps quickly became very popular among young people. By Nineteen-Sixty-Six, there were almost sixteen-thousand volunteers. Today, the Peace Corps is still a popular service (23)organization. But there are fewer volunteers working around the world.VOICE ONE:The President of the United States appoints the head of the Peace Corps. President Bush has not yet chosen who will lead the agency under his (24)administration. Until he decides, the Peace Corps acting director is Charles Baquet (ba-kay). He is a former volunteer who served in (25)Somalia in the Nineteen-Sixties.Mister Baquet replaces Mark Schneider, who was appointed by former President Clinton. Mister Schneider launched severalnew programs designed to lead the Peace Corps into the twenty-first century. He called for all volunteers in Africa to be trained as educators to help people prevent the spread of the (26)AIDS virus. He also worked to expand the use of information technology and computers in volunteer projects and within communities.((MUSIC BRIDGE))VOICE TWO:This month, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fortieth (27)anniversary. Many former volunteers will visit classrooms in their local communities. They will tell students about their experiences as volunteers. They will tell about the culture, customs and language of the countries they worked in. Many cities and colleges and universities around the United States will also observe the Peace Corps anniversary.VOICE ONE:During the Peace Corps's forty-year history, the kinds of volunteers have changed. For example, there are now more women volunteers. Today sixty-one percent of Peace Corps volunteers are women. Forty years ago, less than thirty percent were women. Another difference is that most of the volunteers today are older. Today the average age is twenty-eight. In Nineteen-Sixty-One, the average age was twenty-two.Seven percent of Peace Corps volunteers today are older than fifty. The oldest volunteer is seventy-nine. Some people join after retiring from their jobs. They can offer knowledge and skills gained from many years of experience in business, health care, or education.In the past few years, the Peace Corps has succeeded in getting more volunteers from minority groups in the United States. This year, fourteen percent of the total number of volunteers are African-American, Asian-American, or Hispanic- American. ((MUSIC BRIDGE))VOICE TWO:Working in the Peace Corps is not easy. Not everyone is able to live and work in another culture, far from home. Also, not everyone is able to deal with poor living conditions. Some Peace Corps volunteers do not finish their jobs. They return to the United States early. Many of those who served in the Peace Corps say their service was the hardest experience of their lives. Yet, they often say it was the best experience.VOICE ONE:Some people working at the Voice of America are former Peace Corps volunteers. In fact, Special English writer Jill Moss recently returned from the Peace Corps. She and her husband, Brad, lived in the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. During her Peace Corps service, Jill taught English at a community school. Brad (28)advised local government leaders about developing businesses.Jill says one of the best parts of her service was building close (29)relationships with her students. She still writes to many of them and urges them to work hard at school. She says teaching in a developing country was difficult. But she says her students were (30)intelligent and she enjoyed helping them.VOICE TWO:Jill says her community in the Solomon Islands became her second family. She enjoyed learning about the Solomon Islands culture and the many languages spoken in the country. In turn, the Solomon Islanders learned about the United States. Jill says this is one of the best things a Peace Corps volunteer can do -- teach people in other countries about Americans.Jill Moss says volunteering for the Peace Corps was a great experience because it taught her about the rest of the world. Most former volunteers agree. They say that during their Peace Corps service, they (31)received far more than they gave. (( THEME ))VOICE ONE:This program was written by Shelley Gollust and Jill Moss. It was produced by Cynthia Kirk. I'm Shirley Griffith.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember. Join us again next week for another report about life in the United States on the VOA Special English program, THIS IS AMERICA.(1) peace[ pi:s ]n.和平, 和睦, 安宁, 静寂vi.安静下来(2) corps[ kC: ]n.军团, 兵队, 团, 兵种, 技术兵种, 特殊兵种, (德国⼤学的)学⽣联合会(3) agency[ 5eidVEnsi ]n.代理处, ⾏销处, 代理, 中介(4) celebrate[ 5selibreit ]v.庆祝, 祝贺, 表扬, 赞美, 举⾏(5) anniversary[ 7Ani5vE:sEri ]n.周年纪念(6) volunteer[vRlEn5tIE(r)]n.志愿者, 志愿兵adj.志愿的, 义务的, ⽆偿的v.⾃愿(7) Ghanaian[ ^B:5neiEn ]n.加纳⼈adj.加纳(⼈)的(8) custom[ 5kQstEm ]n.习惯, 风俗, 海关, (封建制度下)定期服劳役,(9) developing[ di5velEpiN ]adj.发展中的(10) smallpox[5smC:lpRks]n.[医]天花(11) Ethiopia[ 7i:Wi5EupjE ]n.埃塞俄⽐亚(⾮洲东部国家)(12) agriculture[ 5A^rikQltFE ]n.农业, 农艺, 农学(13) economic[ 7i:kE5nCmik ]adj.经济(上)的, 产供销的, 经济学的(14) environment[ in5vaiErEnmEnt ]n.环境, 外界(15) design[ di5zain ]n.设计, 图案, 花样, 企图, 图谋, (⼩说等的)构思, 纲要v.设计, 计划,(16) damage[ 5dAmidV ]n.损害, 伤害v.招致损害n.[律] (⽤复数)赔偿⾦(17) resource[ ri5sC:s ]n.资源, 财⼒, 办法, 智谋(18) Thailand[ 5tailAnd ]n.泰国(19) community[ kE5mju:niti ]n.公社, 团体, 社会, (政治)共同体, 共有, ⼀致, 共同体,(20) culture[ 5kQltFE ]n.⽂化, ⽂明(21) vaccine[ 5vAksi:n ]adj.疫苗的, ⽜痘的n.疫苗(22) inaugural[ i5nC:^jurEl ]adj.就职的, 开始的n.就职演说(23) organization[ 7C:^Enai5zeiFEn ]n.组织, 机构, 团体(24) administration[ Edminis5treiFEn ]n.管理, 经营, ⾏政部门(25) Somalia[ sEu5mB:liE ]n. 索马⾥(26) AIDS[eIdz]abbr.爱滋病, 获得性免疫功能丧失综合症(27) anniversary[ 7Ani5vE:sEri ]n.周年纪念(28) advise [ Ed5vaiz ]vt.劝告, 忠告, 警告, 建议[ Ed5vaizd ]adj.考虑过的, 细想过的(29) relationship[ ri5leiFEnFip ]n.关系, 关联(30) intelligent[ in5telidVEnt ]adj.聪明的, 伶俐的, 有才智的, [计]智能的(31) receive[ ri5si:v ]vt.收到, 接到, 接收, 遭到, 受到, 接待, 接见。
英语新闻的体裁
英语新闻的体裁尽管新闻的种类繁多，分类的标准各异，但是，它们都必须通过记者按不同的报道形式即新闻体裁（news style）予以采写。
由于新闻活动的范围是一个广阔多姿、变化无穷的世界，其间的客观事物也呈多样性，因而报道的内容是丰富多彩的，新闻体裁也在不断更新。
就我国读者阅读英语报刊的基本情况而言，新闻体裁主要可分为四大类：消息报道（news reportings）、特写（features）、社论（editorials）和广告（advertisements）。
消息是以简要的文字迅速报道新闻事实的一种体裁，也是最广泛、最经常采用的新闻体裁。
虽然消息通常由三个部分构成，即标题、导语（lead，常为全文的第一段）和正文（body），但正如常人所说，文无定法。
消息的写作结构灵活多样，往往因人而异。
特写与消息的区别在于报道的范围与目的不同。
消息主要告诉读者发生了什么事情。
为了把某件新闻事件交代清楚，消息往往需要写出新闻的各个要素，也就是说，消息所报道的范围一般具有全面性和完整性。
特写则不需照顾全面，而是侧重于某个方面，注重再现生活的画面，将新闻事实诸要素中最有意义、最有情趣和影响的一两个要素或片段，像电影中的特写镜头一样，既形象又突出地把它们再现出来，使读者如身临其境，如耳闻其声，如目睹其人其事，从而获得深刻的印象和强烈的感染。
由此可见，消息报道勾勒出新闻内容的一幅全景画面，而特写报道则展现给读者新闻内容的片断或一组特写镜头的画面。
因此，特写比消息读来更感集中、细腻、绘声绘色，所得到的信息更多，也更为详尽。
特写的种类很多，不论是哪一种性质的特写，其写作形式或结构与消息报道不一样。
它们一般没有特定的规律或格式可循。
读者在阅读英文报纸时，可看到各种不同结构的文章，别开生面。
有的略提一下整个会议程序和会场情景，专写一个问题的讨论，一个提案的提出，一次独特的会面等等。
还有的抓住时间过程中的某一个富有情趣或人情味浓厚的细节层层开掘，溯前追后，写出立体化的新闻。