北师大版高中英语模块4--Unit 11 The Media 1

[00:03.19]Unit 11 The Media Culture Corner
[00:07.04]British Newspapers
[00:15.63]In Britain, the national newspapers
[00:10.99]are very important.
[00:12.62]There are some very good local newspapers
[00:14.64]but most people read one
[00:15.94]of the main national newspapers.

[00:18.77]The most popular  newspapers
[00:20.20]are the "tabloids²".
[00:21.54]They usually have lots of big pictures
[00:23.58]and the articles are not very long.
[00:26.02]Tabloid¹ papers do not have
[00:27.67]many serious articles,
[00:29.38]but they contain lots of stories
[00:31.02]about sex scandals³,
[00:32.69]famous people and the royal family.
[00:34.71]They also have big sports sections
[00:36.87]and a lot of information about TV programmes.

[00:39.97]The two best-selling tabloid newspapers
[00:42.76]are The Sun and The Mirror.
[00:44.84]They sell around four or five million
[00:46.78]copies a day.
[00:47.98]Another tabloid is The Daily Mail,
[00:50.33]which is more serious
[00:53.26]than the other two tabloids.
[00:53.22]There are four main "quality" papers.
[00:55.63]They are much cigger and wider
[00:57.38]than the tabloids and they also have longer
[00:59.64]and more serious news articles
[01:01.50]with fewer pictures.
[01:03.07]Quality newspapers have fewer readers.
[01:04.60]

1 tabloid   

adj.轰动性的，庸俗的；n.小报，文摘

参考例句：

• He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism.他口头对小报新闻进行了抨击。
• He believes that the tabloid press has behaved disgracefully.他认为小报媒体的行为不太光彩。

2 tabloids   

n.小报，通俗小报（版面通常比大报小一半，文章短，图片多，经常报道名人佚事）( tabloid的名词复数 )；药片

参考例句：

• The story was on the front pages of all the tabloids. 所有小报都在头版报道了这件事。
• The story made the front page in all the tabloids. 这件事成了所有小报的头版新闻。

3 scandals   

丑事( scandal的名词复数 )； 流言蜚语； 闲话； 诽谤

参考例句：

• Recent financial scandals have necessitated changes in parliamentary procedures. 最近的金融丑闻使得议会程序必须改革。
• a series of sex scandals 一系列性丑闻