1.練習材料
Lesson 5? The facts
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 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.
2.任務配置:L0
3.知識筆記
(1)查音標
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(2) 學單詞
1) editor /??d?t?/ n. 編輯
2) extreme /?ks?tri?m/ n. 極端
3) statistics /st??t?st?ks/ n. 統(tǒng)計數(shù)字
4) journalist /????n?l?st/ n. 新聞記者
5) president /?pr?z?d?nt/ n. 總統(tǒng)
6) palace? /?p?l?s/ n. 王宮
7) publish /?p?bl??/ v. 出版
8) fax? /f?k/ n. 傳真
9) impatient /?m?pe???nt/ adj. 不耐煩的
10) fire /?fa??/ v. 解雇
11) originally? /??r???n?li/ adv. 起初，原先，從前
