| 歌曲 | Lesson 5 The facts |
| 歌手 | 英语听力 |
| 专辑 | 新概念英语(第三册) |
| [00:01.080] | --- lesson 5 The facts |
| [00:04.960] | --- Listen to the tape then answer the question below. |
| [00:10.520] | --- What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics? |
| [00:18.160] | Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. |
| [00:27.440] | 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. |
| [00:38.280] | When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. |
| [00:45.400] | The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'. |
| [00:53.480] | 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. |
| [01:03.960] | The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, |
| [01:08.880] | but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. |
| [01:18.360] | He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. |
| [01:24.120] | He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. |
| [01:31.960] | When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. |
| [01:41.880] | A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. |
| [01:47.480] | Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. |
| [01:53.320] | However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor |
| [01:59.200] | that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace. |
| [00:01.080] | què qiè shù zì |
| [00:04.960] | tīng lù yīn, rán hòu huí dá yǐ xià wèn tí. |
| [00:10.520] | |
| [00:18.160] | bào kān zá zhì de biān jí cháng cháng wèi le xiàng dú zhě tí gōng chéng lì yī xiē guān jǐn yào de shì shí hé tǒng jì shù zì ér zǒu xiàng jí duān. |
| [00:27.440] | qù nián, yī wèi jì zhě shòu yī jiā yǒu míng de zá zhì de wěi tuō xiě yī piān guān yú fēi zhōu mǒu gè xīn chéng lì gòng hé guó zǒng tǒng fǔ de wén zhāng. |
| [00:38.280] | gǎo zi jì lái hòu, biān jí kàn dì yī jù huà jiù jù jué yǔ yǐ fā biǎo. |
| [00:45.400] | wén zhāng de kāi tóu shì zhè yàng de:" jǐ bǎi jí tái jiē tōng xiàng huán rào zǒng tǒng de gāo qiáng." |
| [00:53.480] | biān jí lì jí gěi nà wèi jì zhě fā qù chuán zhēn, yāo qiú tā hé shí yī xià tái jiē dí què qiè shù zì hé wéi qiáng de gāo dù. |
| [01:03.960] | jì zhě lì jí chū fā qù hé shí zhèi xiē zhòng yào de shì shí, |
| [01:08.880] | dàn guò le hǎo zhǎng shí jiān bú jiàn tā bǎ shù zì jì lái, zài cǐ qī jiān, biān jí děng de bù nài fán le, yīn wèi zá zhì mǎ shàng yào fù yìn. |
| [01:18.360] | tā gěi jì zhě xiān hòu fā qù liǎng fèn chuán zhēn, dàn duì fāng háo wú fǎn yìng. |
| [01:24.120] | yú shì tā yòu fā le yī fèn chuán zhēn, tōng zhī nà wèi jì zhě shuō, ruò zài bù xùn sù dá fù, jiāng bèi jiě gù. |
| [01:31.960] | dàn jì zhě hái shì méi yǒu huí fù. biān jí wú nài, miǎn qiǎng àn yuán yàng fā gǎo le. |
| [01:41.880] | yī zhōu zhī hòu, biān jí zhōng yú jiē dào le jì zhě de chuán zhēn. |
| [01:47.480] | nà gè kě lián de jì zhě bù jǐn bèi bǔ le, ér qiě hái bèi sòng jìn le jiān yù. |
| [01:53.320] | bù guò, tā zhōng yú huò zhǔn fā huí le yī fèn chuán zhēn. zài chuán zhēn zhōng tā gào sù biān jí, |
| [01:59.200] | jiù zài tā shù tōng xiàng 15 yīng chǐ gāo de zǒng tǒng fǔ wéi qiáng de 1, 084 jí tái jiē shí, bèi zhuā le qǐ lái. |
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