NewConceptEnglishlesson5Thefacts确切数字Listentothetapethenanswerthequestionbelow.听录音，然后回答以下问题Whatwastheconsequenceoftheeditor'sinsistenceonfactsandstatistics?Editorsofnewspapersandmagazinesoftengotoextremestoprovidetheirreaderswithunimportantfactsandstatistics.Lastyearajournalisthadbeeninstructedbyawell-knownmagazinetowriteanarticleonthepresident'spalaceinanewAfricanrepublic.Whenthearticlearrived,theeditorreadthefirstsentenceandthenrefusedtopublishit.Thearticlebegan:'Hundredsofstepsleadtothehighwallwhichsurroundsthepresident'spalace.'Theeditoratoncesentthejournalistafaxinstructinghimtofindouttheexactnumberofstepsandtheheightofthewall.Thejournalistimmediatelysetouttoobtaintheseimportantfacts,buthetookalongtimetosendthem.Meanwhile,theeditorwasgettingimpatient,forthemagazinewouldsoongotopress.Hesentthejournalisttwourgenttelegrams,butreceivednoreply.Hesentyetanothertelegraminformingthejournalistthatifhedidnotreplysoonhewouldbefired.Whenthejournalistagainfailedtoreply,theeditorreluctantlypublishedthearticleasithadoriginallybeenwritten.Aweeklater,theeditoratlastreceivedatelegramfromthejournalist.Notonlyhadthepoormanbeenarrested,buthehadbeensenttoprisonaswell.However,hehadatlastbeenallowedtosendacableinwhichheinformedtheeditorthathehadbeenarrestedwhilecountingthe1084stepsleadingtothe15-footwallwhichsurroundedthepresident'spalace.Newwordsandexpressions生词和短语editorn.编辑publishv.出版extremen.极端faxn.传真statisticsn.统计数字impatientadj.不耐烦的journalistn.新闻记者firev.解雇presidentn.总统originallyadv.起初，原先，从前palacen.王宫;宏伟的住宅Notesonthetext课文注释1gotoextremes，走极端。2provide...with…作“向……提供……”解。3towriteanarticleon，写一篇有关……的报道。4leadto……作“通往……”、”导致……”解。5gotopress，付印。6Notonlyhadthepoormanbeenarrested,buthehadbeensenttoprisonaswell.这是notonly…but…aswell引导的并列句子，如果将notonly置于句首，后面主谓语应采取倒装结构。参考译文报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供成立一些无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，编辑看了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府的高墙。”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