分析一篇经济新闻的结构

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China targets liquidity to cool inflation

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Like most of the headlines, this news makes explicit the topic of the news report. It is a report related to economy about inflation. Before the body of this news, there are two pictures along with explanations, which show a general idea of economic situation. then comes to the body part, at the beginning of the body, it presents the main idea of this passage, that is the government will take measures to cool inflation, next, it gives an example of measure that the government has taken and introduces an example of serious phenomenon. Then, it presents several measures that the government may take as well as the bad effects the inflation has brought. At the end of the passage, it gives other reasons that cause the inflation. Therefore, we can make a conclusion that the structure of this news report can be summed like this:

Headline→Lead→Body[main idea→example→phenomenon→measures have been taken→bad effects→other reasons of inflation].

We can find that the whole passage does not appear the writers themselves’opinions, they hold objective attitude, they cite government’s publications and states the facts in objective way, moreover, they present many comments and utterances directly by its owners in this article. Therefore, all these leave us the impression that the writers strive to be objective.

We have already known that objectivity is one characteristic of this article,however, there are other features. In this article, the writers cite many people’s utterances, for example, a ministry spokesman Yao Jian and Chinese Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan,etc. As we know, the source of the utterance can never be ignored, the source of a proposition should be true, reliable and authoritative. In this article, all the sources are reliable which make the proposition readily accepted by readers.

Another main characteristic of writing in this article is the use of numbers which are used to indicate the information accuracy and in turn make the article more persuasive. For example, the numbers in the following sentences suggest how serious the inflation is.

(1)In the first 10 days of November, china’s average wholesale prices for 18

types of vegetables in 36 cities surged by 62.4 percent year-on-year.

(2)China’s Consumer Price Index, a main gauge of inflation, rose to 4.4

percent in October, marking the fastest clip in 25 months………….