浙江省诸暨市草塔中学高中英语 Unit 4 Making the news Newspapers in Britain and the United States 素材 新人教版必修 5Newspapers in Britain can be divided into the quality press (more serious newspapers) and the popular press. Quality newspapers have home and international news, and sports and cultural events. They also carry financial (金融的) reports, travel news and book and film reviews.Popular newspapers are also known as tabloids (通俗小报). They have large headlines, a lot of big photographs and concentrate on news and event s about famous people, and news about the British royal family.The “quality” papers are large and inconvenient to read. For many years, people have been wondering why they refuse to change their size. Ho wever, many other people like the size of the “quality” papers because it shows that they are not reading a tabloid, and are therefore reading a serious paper. The Times is the most famous of the quality newspapers. It began in 1785. It is read by important people such as politicians, lawyers and businessmen. The Sun, founded in 1964, is the most successful of the popular newspapers. Around four million people read it every day and it sells more than any other daily newspaper.In the United States, newspapers usually have the name of the city where they are produced (for example, The New York Times). You can buy the bigge r ones all over the country. The US also has a lot of tabloid newspapers, suc h as The New York Daily News, which are similar to British tabloids.
