China Daily, Aug. 8, 2001
What, who, where, when
Disaster + death / loss
Blaze kills 17 people in illegal arcade • A huge blaze swept through a video games arcade, killing at least 17 people, mostly youngsters, in Tangshan, North China’s Hebei Province, on Monday.
4. Prince George’s police officer killed in traffic accident • A Prince George’s County police officer and another person were hurt in what police are calling a “very serious crash” in the Clinton area. • casualty/loss + disaster
• Police: 2 dead in upstate NY car accident
(October 17, 2012) Wall Street Journal
• 4 killed, 7 injured in head-on crash on Interstate 5 in Northern California (November 5,2012
traffic accident
• 36 Killed in China When Bus Collides With Methanol Tanker
• 43 Killed in Mexico After Truck, Bus Collide
• 4 Die in Crash at Notorious Turn on L.I. Road • Prince George’s Police Officer Killed in Traffic Accident • At Least 2 Dead After 30-Car Pileup in North China
• arcade（内设投角子电子游戏机等的）游乐场
The Asian Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2002
• to avoid cramming of lead
• 在报道某一灾难新闻时，围绕相同的新闻背景和信 息，至少有三种常用的导语形式 • 一辆面包车不一辆逆向行驶的赛车迎面相撞，结果 使另一辆旅游车偏离公路后跃入深达30米的峡谷， 至少有48名乘客並生。
(XinHua, 2013-11-22 )
Disaster + predicate + death / loss
Mud-rock slide kills 19 people • A mudslide that burst on Sunday morning has claimed 19 lives in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province.
The Washington Post)
• Harry Reid hospitalized after Las Vegas car crash (October 26, 2012 The Washington Post)
2. Lead of disaster news
News + background information Loss / death + disaster Disaster + predicate + death / loss Disaster + death / loss
1. At least 48 passengers were killed after their sightseeing coach left the road and plunged into the a valley as a result of a head-on collision between a van and a sports car driving on the wrong side of the road. • casualty/loss + disaster 2. A sight-seeing coach leaving the road and plunging 30 feet into valley killed at least 48 passengers as a result of a head-on collision between a van and a sports car driving on the wrong side of the road. • disaster + predicate+ casualty/loss 3. A head-on collision between a van and a sports car driving on the wrong side of the road forced a sightseeing coach to leave the road and plunge 30 feet into a valley, killing at least 48 passengers. • disaster + casualty
3. Words and Expression of disaster news
On 9/11, We Mourn the Loss of 3,000 Innocent Lives 8 Years Ago • Like so many other Americans today, I am remembering 911 and the tragic loss of life on that fateful day 8 years ago. 3,000 people. Smashed. Burned. Splattered on the pavement when forced to jump from a firestorm. Who knows how many were butchered on the airplanes with box cutters and improvised tools. On the order of an hour, 3,000 Americans had their lives snuffed out.
• As the car, a 2012 Subaru(斯巴鲁 汽车品牌) hatchback（掀背式汽车）, carried the five back to New York, it careered（猛冲） off a Long Island highway and slammed（猛撞） into a stand of trees, killing four 18-year-old passengers, the State Police said. The car struck with such force that it split in two, ejecting（喷射，甩出） all of its occupants.
Headline Terror Comes to America US Attacked War on America War on the world Terror strikes heart of US USA Today The Times The washington Post The Daily Telegraph The Mirror China Daily
2. 43 killed in Mexico after truck, bus collide • At least 43 people were killed when a cargo truck crashed into a bus on a highway in eastern Mexico, in one of the worst traffic accidents the country has suffered in recent years. • casualty/loss + disaster
• 3. 4 Die in Crash at Notorious Turn on L.I. Road • All five were teenage friends from Queens, and four had been classmates at Richmond Hill High School. Some had started college and were planning for careers years away, and they were all out for a ride early Monday in a car that one of them — a 17-year-old with a learner’s permit — had recently started driving.”
Features of Disaster News
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Abruptness：突发性 Timeliness：即时性 Destructiveness：破坏性 Readability：可读性
1. Headline of disaster news 2. Lead of disaster news 3. Words and Expressions of disaster news
对照语料查看是否符吅这种写作模式： 1. 36 Killed in China When Bus Collides With Methanol Tanker • A double-decker sleeper bus plowed into the back of a tanker carrying flammable methanol on an expressway in northwestern China’s Shaanxi Province on Sunday morning, setting off a fire that killed 36 people, including the bus driver, and injured three, the statecontrolled media said. • disaster+casualty/loss