1、Unit 4 Making the news-Reading TaskSEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH Collecting and writing news is like researching in history: the best information comes from those who were there at the time. So if we want to study the history of China in the sixth century AD, we look at the writings of the people who live
2、d then. They are called the primary sources because they tell us what it was like to live then. People at a much later date who write about the same. events are called secondary sources. For example, when we read the original writings of Jia Sixie on agriculture, we are reading a primary source; whe
3、n we read about Jia Sixie in our textbook we are reading a secondary source because the passage was written about him and his ideas many years after he died. When we make news we use primary and secondary sources. We can see this most clearly in TV programmes. As we watch the news on TV, the person
4、presenting the programme in the studio is the secondary source (because he tells us about the news) and the reporter in Iraq or the USA is the primary source (because he is telling us about what is actually happening there). Without these reporters acting as primary sources, you would never find out
5、 what really happened in a war, earthquake, sports meeting, concert or festival. These reporters explain what is happening so we have a clearer idea of what is going on there. They often take photographers with them who also act as primary sources by giving us pictures of events. In a newspaper the
6、position is different because these two roles are often combined. This means a reporter who investigates a story may be the same person who writes it. If this happens, the reporter is both the primary and the secondary source. But the photographer who works with him/her is still a primary source. It
7、 is important to separate primary and secondary sources because they can help us to decide what is true. A primary source is more likely to be true than a secondary one because he/she can give us facts (what happened) rather than opinions (what he/she thinks happened). 翻译如下：寻找真相收集和编写消息是喜欢研究历史:最好的信息来
8、自那些当时。所以如果我们想学习中国历史在公元六世纪的广告,看看我们的著作的人住然后。他们被称为“主要来源,因为他们告诉我们这是喜欢住然后。人们在更晚些时候谁写相同的。事件被称为次要来源。例如,当我们阅读原著作的贾思勰在农业,我们正在阅读一个主要来源;当我们读过关于贾思勰在我们的教科书我们正在阅读一个次级来源,因为通道是关于他和他的想法在他死后多年。当我们让新闻我们使用主要和次要来源。我们可以看到这最明显的在电视节目。当我们看电视新闻,人呈现在工作室的项目是次级来源(因为他告诉我们关于新闻)和记者在伊拉克和美国是主要来源(因为他告诉我们到底发生了什么事情)。没有这些记者作为主要来源,你永远不会找到真正发生在一个战争、地震、运动会、音乐会或节日。这些记者解释正在发生的事情,所以我们有一个清晰的想法那里发生的。他们经常带摄影师与他们谁也作为主要来源给我们活动的照片。在一份报纸的位置是不同的,因为这两个角色经常是结合。这意味着一个记者调查一个故事可能是同一个人写它。如果发生这种情况,记者是两个主要的和次要来源。但是摄影师的作品和他/她仍然是一个主要来源。它是很重要的,单独的主要和次要来源,因为他们可以帮助我们决定什么是真实的。一个主要来源是更有可能是真的比一个二次一个因为他/她可以给我们的事实(发生了什么),而不是意见( 他/ 她认为发生) 。
