The funding， to be disbursed over five years, would pay for teachertraining， technicalsupport， refurbished computers and copies of Microsoft’s Windows and Office， to about 14 spokesman Matt Pilla said.
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-Associated Press Nov.21, 2001
这段新闻只有一句话：微软公司决定向美国14%的学校提供资助。句中"to be disbursed over five years"是动词不定式作定语修饰前面的 "funding";"such as Windows and Office"也是插入语，修饰前面的"popular software"，这都给新闻提供了背景材料。同时作者将said引导的宾语从句放在句首，来强调重要的信息。整个句子结构松散，明显是口语化的句子，读起来短促有力。
新闻常常都要说明消息来源，也就是要说明信息或消息的出处。从语法上讲，在新闻英语中，主句常常是信息或消息的来源或出处，而它后面的宾语从句则是信息或消息的内容。比如：China Daily said that...《中国日报》报道，……;Officials said that…官方人士称，……等等。但是，在英语新闻的报道中，引导宾语从句的that常常省略，这是一个常见的情况。请看下面这段新闻：
Microsoft Offers $1B to Schools
By ALLISONLINN
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Furniss said the proposed deal does not provide enough money to sustain the school programs and therefore would have no real long -term benefits. He also said it provides no real punishment for Microsoft， which has cash reserves of some $32billion.
Schneiderman said： "It really wasn’t strategic;it was really style of leadership. We worked on it，we tried， but we just couldn’t see eye to eye on what to do about it."
"This is one of the potentially most hazardous type of missions that we use as a military tactic， "said Rear Adm.John Stufflebeem， deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"We haven’t done that yet， because it’s an affront to the way the Internet works，"Rasch said. "But now we’re criminalizing anything that happens over the Internet because traffic passes through the United States. "
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-Associated Press Nov.22，2001
我们从上面的例子看到，"他说"插入在两个完整的句子之间。第一个句子结尾用的是逗号，在"他说"之后用句号;这种情况与上面第二部分"直接引语放在said之前"的情况相同。"他说"后面接着的But now we’re crim- inalizing anything…是另一个完整的句子，所以用大写字母开头。但是，必须注意这个句子仍然是前面"他"所说的内容。
William H. Neukom，executive vice presi- dent of law and corporate affairs， announced Wednesday that he will leave Microsoft to concentrate on philanthropy and to spend more time with his grown children....
Neukom said he will continue living in Seattle， where he is chairman of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and active in other community organizations....
在上面的这段新闻中，动词announced和 said后面的宾语从句中没有用过去将来时，而是用现在将来时 "will leave Microsoft"，"will continue living in Seattle"，因为消息发出时，从句中所说的事情还没有发生。
ZURICH，Switzerland (AP)- A Swiss airliner with 33 people on board crashed Saturday night as it was approaching Zurich Airport to land. At least 10people were killed and nine others walked away from the wreckage， officials said.
Local authorities issued an urgent appeal for local residents to join the search for survivors from the Crossair Jumbolino， which went down in a wooded area in the suburb of Birchwil， some two miles east of the airport.
"We have seen additional bodies but have not yet recov - ered them，"Zurich police chief Peter Grueter told a news conference. He refused to speculate about the final number of dead.
The cause of the crash- the second to strike Crossair in less than two years-was not immediately known.
However， two experts quoted on state-run Swiss television said the plane appeared to be flyingtoo low. Weather conditions were alsopoor when Flight LX3597went down， just after 10 p.m.，with rain and some snow. Crossair chief Andre Dose said there were no indications that terrorism was to blame.
On board the Avro RJ-100 Jumbolino from Berlin to Zurich were 33people -28 passengers and five crew，said Manfred Winkler， spokesman for Crossair，a subsidiary of the financially troubled Swis- sair Group.
Hans Baltenberger，a local police official， told Swiss television that at least 10 peo- ple had been killed. The nine known survivors walked on their own to rescue workers， said Zurich airport’s chief medical officer Remo Reich- lin. Three had serious burns while the other six had less severe ones.
Neither the dead nor those who survived were immediately identified.However，the five crew were all Swiss nationals.
The plane was approaching runway 28， a new night landing strip that just began operating a month ago following an agreement by the Swiss transport ministry to limit Germany.
A fire ball engulfed the crash，but the cockpit ands cathed，local police and air-unconfirmed reports that the covered.
Winkler said there had never been any known problems with the small， four-engine jetliner， which is manufactured by Britain’s BAE Aircraft Services Group and seats 97 people.
The crash was sure to add to the woes of Swissair.
Crossair， a subsidiary of the ailing Swissair Group， flies routes between Swiss cities and to other destinations in Europe. It is taking over parts of the Swissair operations in a complicated， government-financed bailout that is meant to be completed next spring.
"It’s come at a very difficult time，"said company chief Dose.
Once the proud national flag flyer， Swissair last month suffered the indignity of having its planes grounded because they could no longer meet fuel and landing fees. Although the government and industry has since stepped in， the airline is still struggling to recover customer confidence and to fill empty seats.
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