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Topic:
News editors decide what to broadcast on television and what to print in newspapers. What factors do you think influence these decisions? Do we become used to bad news? Would it be better if more good news were reported?
英语范文
The mass media, such as TV and newspapers, are the windows through which the public looks at what changes are taking place around the world. As for editors, it is really an important, but hard job to select the main news events from the hundreds of updated current items on behalf of their audience or readers, when many factors need to be considered in making such choices.
First of all, the news should report the latest developments as soon as possible and editors react accordingly. What most people are concerned about is themselves and their immediate environment rather than events occurring on other distant continents, so editors also tend to present audiences with more local news. Finally, significant and unusual events are most newsworthy in the eyes of editors.
On this last point, editors seem to display a preference for “bad” news over “good” news, because bad news is more uncommon and abnormal. Good weather is just not news, but natural disasters like floods and earthquakes, and their casualties are another selling point. Therefore, editors frequently seek to base their headlines on something appalling, such as disasters. They have done this so much that we audiences have become used to this kind of reporting.
What is presented to audiences and readers directly determines what attitudes they hold towards the world. Reporting too much bad news has many negative effects, such as scaring the public and contributing to their pessimism and sense of insecurity. There is no doubt that increasing the number of good news reports would be advisable and would help to foster a more constructive and optimistic view of the world.
题目：
新闻编辑们决定电视和报纸报道的内容，你认为哪些因素影响他们的决定？我们已经习惯于看坏消息了吗？报道更多的正面消息是不是更好呢？
译文：
大众传媒（如电视和报纸）是公众了解世界变化的窗口。编辑的工作既重要又艰苦。他们要在数以百计的最新事件中为公众和读者选出主要新闻，同时还要考虑许多其他因素。
首先，新闻报道最近发生的事件，编辑也应及时做出反应。大部分人都关心他们身边的事，以及和他们有直接关系的事，不太关心与自己较远的事。所以，编辑要呈现给读者更多的当地新闻。最后，在编辑眼中大事和异常事件的新闻价值更大。
最后一点，编辑似乎对“坏”消息而非“好”消息情有独钟。因为坏消息更不正常，好天气不是消息，但是自然灾害（像洪水、地震和伤亡）就是热点。因此，编辑经常将标题定为令人恐惧的事情，如灾难性的事件。编辑们基本上都是这样做的，作为读者我们已经习惯了这种报道。
读者读到的内容直接决定了他们对相应事件所持有的观点。报道过多的负面新闻，就让大家感到悲观和不安全。毫无疑问，增加正面新闻的数量会让人有一种乐观的建设性的世界观，这也是应该被鼓励的。
范文点评：
范文使用了类似于一边倒结构的形式，写了四段。开头作者介绍背景，引起了下文，后面用两段说明影响编辑决定的因素，每段都有一个主题句，并用三到四个支持句进行阐述。并在第三段末回答了题目的第二个问题。最后一段对第三个问题进行回答，并给出了理由。整篇文章结构合理，理由充分，语言丰富，并未拘泥于模板式句型。
