영어속독--Newspapers in Great Britain(2)
The London newspaper that is best known outside Great Britain is probably The Times. It begins in 1785, and has a high reputation for reliable news and serious comment on the news. It calls itself an independent paper, which means that it does not give its support to a particular political party. Its reading articles (or 'leaders', as they are usually called) give the opinions of its editorial staff, not those of the owners of the paper.
The correspondence columns of The Times are always interesting and often amusing. Most of the letters are on serious subjects that is not at all serious, perhaps on a new fashion of dress, or the bad manners of the younger generations compared with the manners of thirt years ago.
The Times, of course, does not publish the strip cartoons that are so common in the cheaper and popular papers. It does, however, publish a cross-word puzzle every day, with clues that are both clever and amusing. Many Times readers try to solve the puzzle every morning as they travel to town by train fro their homes in the suburbs.
The Daily Express and Daily Mail are also independent, though they are usually more sympathetic to Conservative than to Socialist policies. The Daily Telegraph, also a serious paper with a high reputation, is not independent. It supports the Conservative party. (243 words)
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1. reputation: the general opinion that people have about somebody or something.
2. reliable news: news that can be accepted as true.
3. leading article: (or leader): piece of writing that gives the views of the editors on events, etc.
4. correspondence columns: parts of the paper in which letters to the editor are printed.
5. generation: (here) all those persons born about the same time
6. strip cartoon: number of drawings telling a story, and often arranged in squares or oblongs across a page.
7. solve: (a puzzle): find the answer.