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新概念英语第三册第5课:The factsLesson 5 The facts 确切数字Listen to the tape then answer the question below.听录音，然后回答以下问题。What was the consequence of the editor s insistence on facts and statistics?Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president s palace . The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president s palace.参考译文报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供成立一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统 府的文章。稿子寄来后，编辑看第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的：“几百级台阶通向环绕总统的高墙。”编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实 一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来，在此期间，编辑等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要复印。他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对 方毫无反应。于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。但记者还是没有回复。编辑无奈，勉强按原样发稿了。一周之后，编辑终于接 到记者的传真。那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉编辑，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围 墙的1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。New words and expressions 生词和短语editorn. 编辑extremen. 极端statisticsn. 统计数字journalistn. 新闻记者presidentn. 总统palacen. 王宫；宏伟的住宅publishv. 出版faxn. 传真impatientadj. 不耐烦的firev. 解雇originallyadv. 起初，原先，从前Notes on the text课文注释1 go to extremes，走极端。2 provide .with 作“向.提供 ”解。3 to write an article on，写一篇有关 的报道。4 lead to 作“通往 ”、 导致.”解释。5 go to press，付印。6 Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.这是not only .but.as well 引导的并列句子，如果将not only置于句首，后面主谓语应采取倒装结构。Lesson 5 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer新概念英语第三册第1课:A Puma at large Lesson 1 A puma at large逃遁的美洲狮 Listen to the tape then answer the question 新概念英语第三册第33课:A day to remember Lesson 33 A day to remember难忘的一天 Listen to the tape then answer the questio 新概念英语第三册第17课:The longest suspe Lesson 17 The longest suspension bridge in the world世界上最长的吊桥 Listen to t 新概念英语第三册第10课:The loss of the T Lesson 10 The loss of the Titanic泰坦尼克号的沉没 Listen to the tape then answer 第 5 页 共 5 页