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新概念英语第三册逐句精讲 : 第 5 课 The facts Lesson5 The facts 确切数字 新概念 3 课文内容： 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 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 the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the presidents palace. 新概念英语 3 逐句精讲： 1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. 报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一些无关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极 端。 语言点 1: 句子结构分析 :of newspapers and magazines 为介词短语，作 editors 的定语。 To provide their readers with unimportant facts and statisics 为不定式短语，作状语。 语言点 2: 重要写作短语总结 : 描