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Lesson 5 The facts 切实数字

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

听录音，而后回答以下问题。

What was the conquence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide

their readers 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 ntence and then refud to

publish

it.

The article

began: ‘Hundreds of

steps lead

the

high

wall

which surrounds the president's palace.

’The editor at once nt the

journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps

and the height of the wall.

The journalist immediately t out to obtain the important facts,

but he took

a long time

to nd them. two more faxes, but received

no reply.

He nt

yet

another

fax informing

the

journalist

that if

he did

not

soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the

editor

reluctantly

published the

only

had the

poor manbeen arrested,

but

he had been nt

prison

as well.

However,

he had at

last

been allowed

to nd a fax in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested

while counting

the

084

steps

leading to the fifteen-foot

wall

which

surrounded the president's palace. New words and expressions

生词和短

语

editor(1. 1)/'edit+/ n

．编写

publish(1. 6) /'p)bliM/ v

．第一版

extreme(1. 1) /ik'stri:m/n

．极端

fax(1. 7) /f$ks/ n

．传真

statistics(1. 2) /st+'tistiks/ n

．统计数字

impatient(1. 10) /im'peiM+nt/adj.

不耐烦的

journalist(1. 3) /'d{*:n+list/ n ．新闻记者

fire(1. 12) /'fai+/v

．辞退

president(1. 4) /'prezid+nt/n

．总统

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