《新概念英语》第三册 第五课 （附音频）

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Lesson 5 The facts

Listen to the recording and answer the question below.

$ ]) n- S$ r- I! V% X9 LWhat was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics?

2 s7 g. u/ ?1 v+ tEditors 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 sentence and then refused 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 to 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 he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall, which surrounded the president's palace.
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竹声

Reading long sentences is rather challenging, as we need to pay attention to multiple aspects of speech, including pronunciation, stress, linking, and intonation. But the benefits can also be tremendous, since not only do we improve fluency, but we also learn different sentence forms, such as complex and participial structures.

krugerzhang

江山无限

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竹声

谢谢各位的鼓励与支持！我每次朗读并录制这些文章，都有收获。新概念的行文如此优美，句型又非常适用，的确是不可多得的好教材！

odeofbund

老爷我1989年就在读新概念英语了，当时感觉难是难得来，现在回过头来看，原来是那么简单的一篇课文啊。