What do you do when you begin to read an English newspaper?

You'd better know what sections there are. Usually, there is international news, business, science and technology, entertainment or lifestyle, sports and cartoons. You can choose your favourite section to read carefully.

    That you come to the article itself. If you don't have time to read the

whole article, the headline(标题) and photo give you a general idea of the story.

    Different kinds of articles

    A news article includes body text and a photo with a short piece of text under it. It usually puts the most important information at the very beginning. If you don't have much time to read the story, just have a look at the first paragraph.

    A feature article is an in-depth(深人的) report on an event or a person. It usually has an interesting opening. You get to know the idea of the article as you read.

    Another kind of article is an opinion article. Usually, some famous people give their own opinions about an important issue in a fun way. Opinion article is different from news stories that are all facts.

Be a critical(批判性的) reader

    There are advertisements in newspapers. They can provide useful information about products, places, food or jobs. Remember that people make advertisements to sell you things. You don't have to do everything advertisements tell you to do. You should be critical enough to judge which advertisements are useful and which are not.

Emma: What are you doing, Li Lin?

Li Lin:

Emma: I have read it before. What do you think of the story?

Li Lin: Yu Gong found a good way to deal with his problem.

Emma: Really?

It seems impossible to move a mountain,

Li Lin: But the story is trying to show us that anything is possible if you work hard. Yu Gong kept trying and didn't give up.

Emma: I think we should try to find other ways to deal with a problem.

Li Lin: But what could Yu Gong do except moving the mountain?

Emma: He could build a road.

Li Lin: We have different opinions about the story. There are many sides to a story and many ways to understand it.

Emma: Yes, that's fine.

    Just look at how much young writers are loved, and we may know writing has become a fashion today's teenagers.

Gao Can is the (young) member of the Association of Writers of Shanxi. She writes fairy tales, short stories, and most of all, poems. Gao said she began writing poems she was in primary school. Once the teacher asked the class (write) a composition called "If I were..." Gao had an idea, "Why not make poem?" That was her first poem, and it won a lot of compliments from both her teacher and classmates. So far, hundreds of her poems have come

    "Writing poems (be not) difficult at all. Just express yourself," said Gao." I don't have enough life experience, so I write about nature and things I feel inside." However, teenagers these days seldom write poems or read them because exams want any kind of (article) except poems. But like Gao, there are still students who like poems. Hu Jingzhi is one of them. The 14-year-old boy said he was (interest) in poem writing. But it was annoying that he couldn't find poem collections in nearby bookshops. Gao agreed with Hu. She said today's bookshops were filled with books on "to give a successful speech" "how to know what others think" or "how to make money quickly".