| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review on the Study of Modality in News Reports | 第13-18页 |
| ·Research Focus on News Reports of Previous Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Contrastive Study of News Reports in English and Chinese | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Study of Modality in News Reports | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Systemic Functional Analysis of Modality in English and Chinese | 第18-42页 |
| ·The Definition of Modality | 第18-20页 |
| ·Linguistic Modal Expressions | 第20-35页 |
| ·Modality Orientations | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Relations of Modality Orientations and Modal Expressions | 第37-42页 |
| Chapter 3 Contrast of Modality Orientations in both English and Chinese News reports | 第42-64页 |
| ·Method | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Frequency of Modality Occurrence | 第43-46页 |
| ·Explicit Subjective Orientation | 第46-48页 |
| ·Implicit Subjective Orientation | 第48-56页 |
| ·Implicit Objective Orientation | 第56-58页 |
| ·Explicit Objective Orientation | 第58-61页 |
| ·Summary | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusion | 第64-70页 |
| ·Sum- up | 第64-67页 |
| ·Implication and Suggestion in Language Teaching | 第67-69页 |
| ·Limitation of the Thesis | 第69-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-73页 |
| Corpus Bibliography | 第73-74页 |
