【正文】 gs, cl othes, furni ture, hoveri ng carri ages, etc. There i s no waste, no pol l uti on and no environmental dam age! H owever, the panies have to trai n thei r representatives to l i ve and work i n space setl em ents. They have to m onitor the robots and the producti on. When the goods are ready they?re transported by i ndustri al spaceshi p back to earth. My mi nd began to wander. What job woul d I do? My m oti vati on i ncreased as I thought of the wonderful worl d of the future. Uni t 4 MY FIRST WORK ASSIGNMENT “unfettabl e”, says new journali st N ever wil Zhou Yang (ZY) fet his fi rst assi gnment at the offi ce of a popul ar Engl i sh newspaper. H i s di scussi on wi th hi s new boss, H u Xin (H X), was to strongly i nfluence hi s li fe as a journali st. H X: Wel e. We?re deli ghted you?re i ng to work wi th us. Your fi rst job here wil l be an assi stant journal ist. Do you have any questi ons? ZY: Can I go out on a story imm edi atel y? H X: (laughing)That?s adm i rabl e, but I?m afrai d i t woul d be unusual! Wai t til you?re m ore experienced. Fi rst we?l l put you as an assi stant to an experi enced journal i st. Later you can cover a story and subm i t the arti cl e yourself. ZY: Wonderful. What do I need to take wi th m e? I al ready have a notebook and cam era. H X: N o need for a cam era. You?l l have a professional photographer wi th you to take photographs. You?l l fi nd your col l eagues very eager to assi st you, so you m ay be abl e to concentrate on photography l ater if you ?re i nterested. ZY: Thank you. N ot onl y am I i nterested i n photography, but I tok an am ateur course at uni versity to update m y skil ls. H X: Good. ZY: What do I need to rem em ber when I go out to cover a story? H X: You need to be curi ous. Onl y i f you ask many di fferent questi ons wil l you acqui re al the i nform ati on you need to know. We say a good journali st m ust have a good “nose” for a story. That m eans you m ust be abl e to asses when peopl e are not tel li ng the whol e truth and then try to di scover i t. They m ust use research to i nform themsel ves of the mi ssi ng parts of the story. ZY: What should I keep i n mi nd? H X: H ere es m y li st of dos and don?ts: don?t m iss your deadli ne, don?t be rude, don?t tal k too much, but m ake sure you l i sten to the intervi ewee careful ly. ZY: Why i s li steni ng so im portant? H X: Wel l, you have to li sten for detail ed facts. Meanwhil e you have to prepare the next questi on depending on what the person says. ZY: But how can I l i sten careful l y whil e taking notes? H X: This i s a tri ck of the trade. If the i nterviewee agrees, you can use a recorder to get the facts strai ght. It?s al so useful i f a person wants to chal enge you. You have the evi dence to support your story. ZY: I see! H ave you ever had a case where som eone acused your journali sts of getti ng the wrong end of the stick? H X: Yes, but it was a l ong ti m e ago. Thi s i s how the story goes. A fotbal l er was accused of taki ng m oney for del i berately not scori ng goal s so as to l et the other team wi n. We went to i ntervi ew him . H e deni ed taki ng m oney but we were skepti cal . So we arranged an i ntervi ew between the fotbal er and the m an supposed to bri be him . When we saw them together we guessed from the footbal l er?s body l anguage that he was not tel li ng the truth. So we wrote an arti cl e suggesti ng he was gui l ty. It was a dil em m a because the footbal er coul d have dem anded dam ages i f we were wrong. H e tri ed to stop us publ ishi ng it but l ater we were proved ri ght. ZY: Wow! That was a real “scoop”. I?m l ooki ng forward to my fi rst assi gnm ent now. Perhaps I?l l get a scoop too! H X: Perhaps you wil l. You never know. GETTING TH E “SCOOP” “quick,” sai d the edi tor. “Get that story ready. We need i t i n this edi ti on to be ahead of the other newspapers. Thi s i s a scoop. ” Zou Yang had just e back i nto the offi ce after an i ntervi ew with a fam ous film star. “Di d he real l y do that?” asked som eone from the Internati onal News Departm ent. “Yes, I?m afrai d he di d, ” Zhou Yang answered. H e set to work. Hi s fi rst task was to wri te hi s story, but he had to do i t careful l y. Al though he real i zed the man had been l yi ng, Zhou Yang knew he m ust not accuse him di rectly. H e woul d have to be accurate, Conci se too! H e knew how to do that. Months of trai ni ng had taught him to wri te wi th no wasted words or phrases. H e sat down at hi s puter and began to work. The fi rst person who saw his arti cl e was a seni or edi tor from his departm ent, . H e checked the evi dence, read the arti cl e and passed i t on to the copyeditor. She began to edi t the pi ece and desi gn the m ain headl ine and sm al l er headi ng. “Thi s wi l l ook very good on the page,” she sai d. “Where i s a good pi cture of thi s m an?” Then as the arti cl e was going to be wri ten i n Engli sh Zhou Yang al so took a copy to the nati ve speaker em pl oyed by the newspaper to pol i sh the styl e. She was al so very happy wi th Zhou Yang?s story. “You are real y abl e to wri te a good front page arti cl e, ” she sai d. Zhou Yang sm il ed wi th happi ness. Last of al l, the chi ef editor read i t and approved it. “Wel done, ” he sai d to Zhou Yang. “But pl ease show m e your evi dence so we?re sure we?ve got our facts strai ght.” “I?l l bri ng i t to you im m edi atel y, ” sai d Zhou Yang exci tedl y. The news desk edi tor took the story and began to work on al l the stori es and photos until al l the pages were set. Al the i nform ati on was then ready to be processed i nto fi lm negati ves. Thi s was the fi rst stage of the pri nti ng process. They needed four negati ves, as several col ors were goi ng to be used on the story. Each of the m ai n colors had one negati ve sheet and when they