时事新闻报道类在近年的高考英语阅读理解题中,常有时事新闻报道类的文章,其内容与人们的生活息息相关,如战争、环境、人口、能源等。

1. 新闻六要素：时间、地点、人物、事件的起因、经过、结果。

2. 新闻的结构：标题、导语、主体、背景、结语。

标题、导语、主体是消息必不可少的，背景和结语有时则蕴涵在主体里面，有时省略。

3. 现将这类文章的特点、命题角度及解题方法分述如下:【显著特征】1.第一段简要概述新闻或时事的内容提要,接着再详述具体内容;2.新闻或消息类文章在开头通常用大写字体标明其出处或来源,并用破折号或冒号引出内容提要。

【测试角度】1.测试文章的主旨大意或段落大意;2.测试考生对于某个具体信息的理解与把握,即细节理解;3.测试所读材料的来源或出处;4.测试考生利用所给信息进行推理的能力。

【解题方法】1.速读短文,特别是开头的几句,抓住五个W,即:事件发生的时间(when)、地点(where)、人物(who)、原因(why)、过程和结果(how),把握新闻的主要内容;2.细读所给的试题,初选相应的答案;3.细读短文,并确定相应的答案。

4.信息的增加或减少是阅读理解题中设计干扰项的常见手法,因此,在确定答案时,应特别注意识别。

Passage1Visiting U.S. President George W. Bush said in Beijing Friday that both China and the United States should encourage bilateral(双边的) contacts and exchanges to promote mutual(相互) understanding.“It’s important for our political leaders to come to China,” said Bush, who gave a speech Friday morning at Qinghua University, one of the most prestigious universities in China.His working visit to China and discussions with Oinghua students “help promote” Sino-U.S.(中美) relations, Bush said in response to a student’s question about what he would do to promote Sino-U.S. relations.“Many people in my country are very interested in China,” he said, adding that these Americans have learned more about China’s culture and the Chinese pe ople.He said that he would keep encouraging such contacts and exchanges between the two countries.Bush said that he would describe back home what he has seen here and that China as a great nation not only has a “great history” but also an “unbelievably exciting future.”The president said that the 2008 Olympic Games would make a significant opportunity for the rest of the world to understand China, which enables more people to come to China and feel the modernization taking place, and many more people will see it on the television.Bush arrived in Beijing Thursday for a two-day working visit to China.1. What the word “prestigious” in the second paragraph probably means?A. greatB. famousC. honorableD. modest2. Which of the sentence is NOT true?A. Bush think bilateral contacts and mutual understanding will promote Sino-U.S. relations.B. Many Americans are interested in China.C. Bush and the students of Qinghua discussed something about how to make China richer and stronger.D. The 2008’s Olympic Games is a great chance for China to be known by the world.3. Many Americans are interested in China because _______.A. they want to come here to take part in the 2008 Olympic GamesB. they have learned something of China and they want to learn moreC. great change has been taking place in ChinaD. China has a “great history” and “unbelievably exciting future”4. The narrator(叙述者) of the passage was most probably _____.A. a reporterB. a psychologistC. a politicianD. a sociologistPassage2New York: when the first jet(喷气式飞机) struck, World Trade Center at 8:48 am on Tuesday, the People in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant damage across the divide had the clearest sense of what they, too, must do: get out fast.Katherine Hachinski, who had been knocked off her chair by the blast(爆炸声) of heat exploding from the neighboring tower, was one of those. Despite her 70 years of age, Ms Hachinski, an architect working on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Centre, the south tower, went for the stairs. Twelve floors above her, Judy Wein, an executive (经理), screamed and set off too.But others up and down the 110 floors, many without clear views of the damage across the way and thus unclear about what was happening, were not so sure. And the 18 minutes before the next plane would hit were ticking off.Amid the uncertainty about what was the best thing to do, formal announcements inside the sound tower instructed people to stay put, assuring them that the building was sound(完好的) and the threat was limited to the other tower.Some left, others stayed. Some began to climb down and, when met with more announcements and other cautions(警告) to stop or return, went back up. The decisions made in those instants proved to be of great importance, because many who chose to stay were doomed(注定死亡) when the second jet crashed into the south tower, killing many and stranding(使某物留在) many more in the floors above where the jet hit.One of those caught in indecision was the executive at Fuji Bank UAS.Richard Jacobs of Fuji Bank left the 79th floor with the other office workers, but on the 48th floor they heard the announcement that the situation was under control. Several got in the lifts and went back up, two minutes or so before the plane crashed-into their floor.“I just don’t know what happened to them,” Mr. Jacobs said.1. From the passage, we know that the south tower was hit by the plane_______.A. at 8: 30B. 18 minutes earlier than the north towerC. at around 9:06D. at 8:482. The underlined words “stay put” means_______.A. stay in the buildingB. leave at onceC. put everything back and then leaveD. keep silent3. Which floor was hit by the second jet?A. the 91st floorB. the 103rd floorC. the 60th floorD. the 79th floor4. Fewer people would have died if_______.A. more announcement had been madeB. people hadn’t used the liftsC. the incident had happened on a weekendD. the people had obeyed the office rules【答案解析】本文描述了两架飞机先后撞击世贸大厦的情况及人们对此的反应。