There are many newspapers on sale every day and most people like to read them. I know it is quite important to read articles that are useful to me. But as a student, I don’t have much extra money to buy newspapers. So I read them on the Internet. One of the advantages is that instead of flipping the newspapers, all I have to do is click on the topics I’m interested. And the Internet also provides the latest news all over the world. I can get the information immediately. Anyway, reading with papers or reading on the Internet can greatly help me improve my knowledge and studies.
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You need to tell the reader what kinds of articles are useful to you. I read the newspaper on the Net every day, too, and, like you, I prefer to read useful articles. As an English teacher, some articles can be useful to me because I can use them as materials for my conversation and reading comprehension classes. Others may be useful to me because they tell me about products I want to buy -- for example, the new Asus Eee PC -- or about new laws that affect me in particular. Most of the articles I read, however, are merely interesting to me, not useful.
As a teacher, I don't feel as if I have enough extra money to pay for the newspaper either. I usually read the paper on the Net or in the English Department office, or in a coffee shop and restaurant I go to a couple of times a week.
"all I have to do is click on the topics I’m interested" is a misusage. The verb is "interested in", a two-word phrasal verb.
I'm pleased to see that you think reading the news is important. I think it is too.
On the other hand, the news is so filled with stories that make me question the sanity of most human beings in the world that I often feel better if I don't read it at all.
For example, have you read about that pitifully uninformed British woman. Gillian Gibbons, who went to The Sudan to teach English and just last week ended up in jail because she allowed her six- and seven-year=old students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, after the prophet of the Muslim religion? The BBC news report from today says: "she is being held in secret due to fears for her safety after crowds of protesters marched in the capital demanding a tougher sentence, some of whom called for the death penalty." When I read things like this, it makes me ill.
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