Hello everybody, today we will come to lesson 5, The Facts, a humorous story about an editor and a journalist. 大家好,今天我们要讲的是第五课,《确切数字》,一个关于一位编辑和记者的幽默故事。
§ Lesson 5 The facts 确切数字
let’s first go through new words and expressions.先看看单词和语法。请大家跟我念:
【New words and expressions】 生词和短语
◆editor n. 编辑
◆extreme n. 极端
◆statistics n. 统计数字
◆journalist n. 新闻记者
◆president n. 总统
◆palace n.王宫;宏伟的住宅
◆publish v. 出版
◆fax n.u盘安装xp 传真
◆impatient adj. 不耐烦的
◆fire v. 解雇
◆originally adv. 起初,原先,从前
这里我们要重点讲几个单词和词组。
鸦片战争的影响★editor n. 编辑
edit vt. 编辑
edition n.编辑,版本
editorial adj. 编辑的,主编的;n. 社论,评论
invent vt. 发明
inventor n. 发明家
visit vt. 拜访
visitor n. 拜访者
★extreme n. 极端 adj. 极端的 extremely adv.极端地
go to extreme(s) to do 走极端
Eg: He went to extreme to say that the play was the best one.他很极端地说这部剧是最好的。
go too far做得过火,走极端,走太远
Don’t go too far or you will get lost. 别走太远,你会迷路的。
You went too far! 你做得太过分了。
go so far as to 竟然到……的地步,甚至
She wouldn’t go so far as to refu to attend school.
★journalist n. 新闻记者
journalist 新闻工作者,以新闻工作为职业的人
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. 他们的主要职责是收集并发布新闻及其它信息。
根据不同情境,新闻工作者可以包含各种类型的工作人员,如编辑、作家、专栏作家等。
reporter 新闻故事的作者、调查者或主持人,泛称记者
A reporter is a type of journalist who rearches, writes, and reports on information to be prented in mass media, including print media (newspapers and magazines), electronic media (television, radio, documentary film), and digital media (such as online journalism).费尔巴哈论通讯员是记者的一类,负责印刷、电子及数字媒体等大众媒体信息的调查、编写并报道。
correspondent 记者,通讯员,被报社或广播媒介雇佣用来提供新闻故事或文章的人,一般是驻外的。全球最大的通讯员网络是德国的ard和英国的bbc。
而且correspondent相对于reporter的写实来说更具有主观性,比如在英国,correspondent一般指在某方面有专业经验的,如最常见的war correspondent,战事通讯员,reporter则没有专向性的,一般是给什么题材报什么题材。
★publish v. 出版
Eg: They have already published the magazine.
= print vt.24号令
Eg: the book has already been published.
The book has gone to press.
★fax n. 传真
nd a fax
★impatient adj. 不耐烦的
世界那么大还是遇见你patient adj. 有耐心的 n. 病人
be patient with
The doctor is very patient with his patients.这位医生对他的病人十分耐心。
patiently adv. 有耐心地
impatient adj. 不耐烦的
impatiently adv. 不耐烦地
patience n.
impatience n.
★fire v. 解雇
申请单模板He was fired from his job. 他被解雇了。
dismiss (正式)
The manager disisd him from his company.他经理把他辞退了。
sack(俚语) vt. 解雇,辞退
Eg: If you do it wrong again you will be sacked. 如果你再做错你就走人。
★originally adv. 起初,原先,从前
original adj.
ok, now we finished the words and expressions, then we can come to the passage. However, I wouldn’t suggest u guys to read the passage first, instead, I suggest you read the questions first. 单词讲完了,现在我们来听听文章。虽然大学平时在学习过程中多数的习惯是先看或听文章再做题,但在实际的考试过程中,为了节省答题时间以及加快阅读或听力时对文章的理解,我建议先看题再看文章。现在让我们先看看题。下面这十二道题主要考的是对文章的理解、结构和单词。首先看理解部分。
【伴你到永远Multiple choice questions】多项选择题
Comprehension
1 The editor acted as he did becau .
a. he wanted an excu to fire the journalist
b. he had not read the article beyond the first ntence
c. he was dissatisfied with the factual content of the article
d. he wanted to plea the president of the new African republic
首先看问题,编辑这么做是因为……这里其实有两个问题需要大家从之后的文章中找出,编辑做了什么以及为什么这么做。接着看答案
A 他想找借口开除那个记者。
B 他只读了文章的第一句
旅游礼品C 他对文章中的具体内容不满意
D 他想取悦非洲某个新成立共和国的总统
而从答案中我们大致可以判断这篇文章中出现的人物可能有the editor,the journalist and the president of new African republic。
1. C
2 The journalist took a long time to nd the details required becau .
a. it took him a long time to count all the steps
b. he had not been allowed to fax the information he had obtained
c. he did not realize how soon the magazine would go to press
d. he had been arrested before he had had time to obtain the facts
这道题也一样,只不过这里的人物只有一个,就是记者
记者花了很长时间发送所需要的信息,那为什么花了这么长时间呢
A 因为他花了很长的时间去计算所有的台阶。
B 他不被允许将获得的信息传真出去。
C 他没有意识到杂志这么快就要印刷出版了
D 在他获取数据前他就被捕了。
2. B
3 Why had the journalist been arrested
a. Becau his activities must have appeared suspicious.
b. For having gone to extremes to provide unimortant facts.
c. For climbing the palace wall in order to measure its height.
d. Becau the article was published in its original form.
第三题,记者为什么会被捕呢
A 肯定是因为他的行为太可疑了。
B 因为他为了提供不重要的数据而走极端了。
C 为了测量高度而爬了总统府的墙。
D 因为这篇文章是按最初的版本发表的。
3. A
接下来的两部分是语法结构和单词。这两部分其实跟文章的整体内容理解没有多大关系,因此我们可以在读完文章后再来直接答题。那么我们现在就先来读读文章。
Structure
4 the first ntence, the editor refud to publish the article.
a. Reading b. Having read c. He read d. Being read
怎么样第一句话,编辑拒绝出版这篇文章。这里其实是一句主从句,而空格显然需要的是非谓语动词,因为这句话的主语和谓语都是完整的,在后半句里,因为c选项是可以排除的。而一般式的分词短语常用来表示该分词动作与主句动词动作同时或几乎同时发生。而当分词的动作与主句动作有明显的先后顺序时我们就要用现在分词的完成时。而看这句话的意思,编辑应该是看过第一句话之后才拒绝出版的,因此是有明显的先后顺序的。所以正确答案是b。