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新概念英语第三册课堂笔记：第 5 课 新概念英语第三册课堂笔记 第五课 Lesson 5 The facts 确切数字 New words and expressions 】 生词和短语 ★editor 编辑 edit ：(v.) 编辑 edition ：(n.) 编辑 editorial ：(a) 编辑的，主编的 (n.) 社论，评论 ★extreme 极端 go to extreme(s) to do ： 走极端 He went to extreme to say that the play was the best one. He went to extremes to say that his girlfriend was the most beautiful in the world. go from one extreme to the other statistics 统计数字 journalist 新闻记者 reporter ：( 电视台）记者 correspondent ：( 电台）记者，通讯员 president 总统 ★palace 王宫；宏伟的住宅 ★publish 出版 They have already published the magazine =print(vt.),go to press The book has already been published. The book has gone to press. fax 传真 send a fax impatient adj. 不耐烦的 patient ：有耐心的 patiently ：有耐心地 impatient ：不耐烦的 impatiently ：不耐烦地 n. ： patience,impatience fire 解雇 He was fired from his job dismiss( 正式） The manage dismissed him from his company. sack( 俚语 ) “解雇，辞退“ If you do it wrong again you will be sacked. originally adv. 起初，原先，从前 original (a.) Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What was the consequence of the editors insistence on facts and statistics? Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the presidents palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began ： Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the presidents palace. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but the 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