Newspapers, along with reporting the news, educate, entertain, and giveopinions. An important way of reading a large, big-city newspaper is to put it intodifferent sections. Can you find these separate sections: world news, national andlocal news, sports, business, entertainment, opinions, ads? Does your paper haveother sections?News stories give facts, not the reporters opinions. Some newspaper editorials(社论) come out with the writers name, but many newspapers only carry editorialswithout putting the writers names on.You can be a better reader if you know what to expect in a newspaper. Forexample, you can expect headlines to leave out unnecessary words. You can expectto find the most important facts in the leading paragraph (the first paragraph) of anews story. You can expect important news items to be on the front page. You canexpect less important items to be on the inside pages.Most of all, the more you know about news of the present time, the more youwill understand what is in the newspaper; important stories are generally presentedone day and followed up on following days. So, an important way to readnewspapers is reading one frequently.
A good way to read a newspaper is to find separate sections and read
according to your needs.