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1 The lead function and styles
Generally， the lead of a piece of news can reflect the key points of the news body. You can nearly get the factors and general meaning of the body just by having a sight of the lead. Besides， the lead always determines the theme of the news： sad、happy、praiseworthy or critical. The last one， but the most important one is it will attract the readers’ attention and interest. In fact， the lead is part of the body， usually， it been located as the first paragraph， but for its important function we need to study it particularly.
2 New words and phrases
In the special political economic and social environment more and more new words or phrases are being produced， they are easy to be accepted by the readers. For example： “think”、”tank”， their original meanings are “思考” and “箱柜” ，but the English news writers use “think tank” as a phrase which means “智囊團”.
The development of the science， also enlarges the news English vocabulary， such as “Apollo” “moonwalk” “moon fall” “earthrise” and so on.
Intercultural communication is becoming more and more frequent in which the news medias play an important role. As a result， there are foreign words adapted by the news medias especially some words about fresh things or affairs. In the body， these words are usually printed in capitalization or italics. As the words become more and more normal， they have became completely English words， such as “visa” borrowed from France， “blitz” from German， “Kungfu”、 “tycoon” from China， “judo” from Japan ，“percapita” from Latin.
3 Flexible using of old words
Generally， the method of adding new meanings to old words and changing original class of the words are normal for English news writing.
Flexible meaning ： In the process of news English development， readers and writers are becoming more and more prefer to the method， because it can make the words become more and more vivid and expressible. Although， the words’ meanings have no relation at all with their original meanings， they appear frequently in the news English. For example： “leg” refers to a part of human body， but read the following report：
Flying to Brussels on the second leg of his five nation European tour， Bush will take his case directly to the north Atlantic Treaty Organization’s leaders in an appearance at the western security alliance’s headquarters.
Obviously， “leg” doesn’t refer to a part of human body， but a station of Bush’s trip.
Flexible word class ： It is common among nouns、verbs and adjectives for making the sentences simple、short and novel. Firstly， verbs are used as noun. For example：
Afghans were set to make U.S.–backed Humid Kauai their new leader， but some delegates walked out of the their offices on Wednesday saying they had not been given a say after 23 years of conflict.
“say” is a verb， but here it means “the right to speak and make a decision”.
Secondly， adjectives are used as verbs. For example：
“okay” is an adjective meaning “ok、good、not bad ” we can say “I hope every thing is okay”， but in these sentences “pentagon okays work on missile test site”， “US house panel Okay missile defense funds” “okay” is equal to “agree to， approve of”
Thirdly， flexible proper noun. The transformation of proper nouns’ meaning is also one of news English predominant characteristics. The proper nouns such as persons’ or a places’ names are used instead of countries 、governments or cities. For example：
Conclusion
This article has a great significance. First of all， it strengthens our English knowledge about English news reading. And then put our theories into practice， meanwhile， exercises our language manipulation and reading abilities.
The research on the news English reading has been worked for many years. Many English teachers have made many great achievements in this field， so this article is only an exploration. We believe that there will be more and more teachers who will set about in further researches in this field and the reading knowledge of news English will be mastered by students better and better.
Generally， the lead of a piece of news can reflect the key points of the news body. You can nearly get the factors and general meaning of the body just by having a sight of the lead. Besides， the lead always determines the theme of the news： sad、happy、praiseworthy or critical. The last one， but the most important one is it will attract the readers’ attention and interest. In fact， the lead is part of the body， usually， it been located as the first paragraph， but for its important function we need to study it particularly.
2 New words and phrases
In the special political economic and social environment more and more new words or phrases are being produced， they are easy to be accepted by the readers. For example： “think”、”tank”， their original meanings are “思考” and “箱柜” ，but the English news writers use “think tank” as a phrase which means “智囊團”.
The development of the science， also enlarges the news English vocabulary， such as “Apollo” “moonwalk” “moon fall” “earthrise” and so on.
Intercultural communication is becoming more and more frequent in which the news medias play an important role. As a result， there are foreign words adapted by the news medias especially some words about fresh things or affairs. In the body， these words are usually printed in capitalization or italics. As the words become more and more normal， they have became completely English words， such as “visa” borrowed from France， “blitz” from German， “Kungfu”、 “tycoon” from China， “judo” from Japan ，“percapita” from Latin.
3 Flexible using of old words
Generally， the method of adding new meanings to old words and changing original class of the words are normal for English news writing.
Flexible meaning ： In the process of news English development， readers and writers are becoming more and more prefer to the method， because it can make the words become more and more vivid and expressible. Although， the words’ meanings have no relation at all with their original meanings， they appear frequently in the news English. For example： “leg” refers to a part of human body， but read the following report：
Flying to Brussels on the second leg of his five nation European tour， Bush will take his case directly to the north Atlantic Treaty Organization’s leaders in an appearance at the western security alliance’s headquarters.
Obviously， “leg” doesn’t refer to a part of human body， but a station of Bush’s trip.
Flexible word class ： It is common among nouns、verbs and adjectives for making the sentences simple、short and novel. Firstly， verbs are used as noun. For example：
Afghans were set to make U.S.–backed Humid Kauai their new leader， but some delegates walked out of the their offices on Wednesday saying they had not been given a say after 23 years of conflict.
“say” is a verb， but here it means “the right to speak and make a decision”.
Secondly， adjectives are used as verbs. For example：
“okay” is an adjective meaning “ok、good、not bad ” we can say “I hope every thing is okay”， but in these sentences “pentagon okays work on missile test site”， “US house panel Okay missile defense funds” “okay” is equal to “agree to， approve of”
Thirdly， flexible proper noun. The transformation of proper nouns’ meaning is also one of news English predominant characteristics. The proper nouns such as persons’ or a places’ names are used instead of countries 、governments or cities. For example：
Conclusion
This article has a great significance. First of all， it strengthens our English knowledge about English news reading. And then put our theories into practice， meanwhile， exercises our language manipulation and reading abilities.
The research on the news English reading has been worked for many years. Many English teachers have made many great achievements in this field， so this article is only an exploration. We believe that there will be more and more teachers who will set about in further researches in this field and the reading knowledge of news English will be mastered by students better and better.