Step 1 单词都在文中标出了，大家发挥一下想象和推理能力，猜猜那些生词都是什么意思吧。阅读中非常需要这种猜测推理能力的哦。 

 Lesson 5 The facts

Q: What was the consequence of the editor’s insistence on facts and statistics? 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 telegram 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. 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 telegram 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 he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

Step 2词汇的意思都在这里了哦。看看你都猜对了么？

    editor        n. 编辑

    extreme       n. 极端

    statistics    n. 统计数字

    journalist    n. 新闻记者

    president     n. 总统

    palace        n.王宫；宏伟的住宅

    publish       v. 出版

    fax           n. 传真

    impatient     adj. 不耐烦的

    fire          v. 解雇

    originally    adv. 起初，原先，从前

Step 3  特别的单词总是要特别的待遇，下面的单词最好记住，有空多练习。：）

1. consequence   n.结果

英释  result

联想记忆 effect， consequence， result， outcome， upshot， sequel

这些名词表示由某种原因引起的事物，如事件、情况或条件等。

effect 是由行为者的行为或原因产生并随后产生的：

      Every cause produces more than one effect

consequence 也由原因引起并可追溯到该原因， 但两个词间的关系并不能严格界定：

     Servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

result 是一种结果，被认为是原因作用下产生的最后结果：

          Judging from the results I have seen . . . I cannot say . . . that I agree with you.

outcome 作为一种结果比 result 要强烈， 表示最终结果或原因作用了较长一段时间以后的结果：

          If you had refused, the outcome would probably not have been very different.

upshot 是一种决定性结果，常用于形容高潮：

         The upshot of the matter . . . was that she showed both of them the door .

sequel 是一种在一段时间之后再产生的结果：

         Our dreams are the sequel of our waking knowledge.

2.  editor  n. 编辑

英释 a person who edits materials for publication

短语 chief editor 主编;

联想记忆

edit  vt. 编辑 

    edition n.编辑 

    editorial adj. 编辑的，主编的；n. 社论，评论

compile v. 汇编（不修改） 

    compiler n. 汇编者

    Eg:  a guidebook compiled from a variety of sources

compose  v.创作

       composer 作曲家

       compose  a poem, an  opera , a speech.

    Eg:She began to compose at an early age.

3.   extreme  n. 极端 adj.极端的

常用短语

in the extreme 极其

     Eg：He has been generous in the extreme.

go to extreme(s) to do 走极端

     Eg: He went to extreme to say that the play was the best one.

go from one extreme to the other 从一个极端走向另一个极端

4.statistics n. 统计数字

英释 collected numbers which represent facts

联想记忆 statistician n.统计学家，统计员

                accountant 会计师，会计员

                auditor  审计员，查账员

                statics 静力学

5. journalist n. 新闻记者

英释 a person who writes for a newspaper or a magazine

联想记忆 press  / TV / radio  reproter   报刊/电视/广播 记者

                correspondent (驻远地的)记者，通讯员

6. palace  n.王宫；宏伟的住宅

联想记忆 (猜猜下面都是什么宫殿？不附答案咯.）

The Forbidden City

Palace Museum

Summer Palace

Buckingham Palace

Downing St.

White Hall

White House

Pentagon

7.publish v. 出版

英释 print vt.

联想记忆

issue       v 发行

     Eg: The magazine is issued weekly.

come out v. 出版

    Eg:When is her new novel coming out?

短语例句

publishing house 出版社

They have already published the magazine.

The book has already been published.

8.impatient adj. 不耐烦的

英释 unable to wait calmly or tolerate the weakness of others

常用短语

be impatient at sth./with sb.不耐心，不耐烦的

     You're too impatient with her;she's only a child.

     He was getting impatient at having to wait too long.

be impatient of sth.:intolerant of sth.无法容忍的

     He is impatient of anything stupid.

be impatient for sth/to do sth 急于，渴望的

    He is impatient to see his wife.

    She is impatient for the result of her examination.

9.    fire   v. 解雇

英释 to dismiss from a job

      Eg:   He was fired from his job.

联想记忆

dismiss (正式用语)

     Eg: The manager dismissed him from his company.

sack(俚语) vt./n 解雇，辞退

     Eg: If you do it wrong again you will be sacked

      get the sack 被解雇；give the sack 解雇

lay sb. off (暂时)解雇，下岗

     Eg: They were laid off because of the lack of new orders.

remove sb from sth.  撤职，辞退

     Eg:The corrupt official was removed from office.

Step 4 学英语就必须勤学苦练，学而不练，事倍功半，下面就做几个练习吧(习题来源于词汇练习册和课后词汇题目)。

1.  The editor ____ having all the facts and figures.

    a. insists on      b. wants           c. requires

2.  If you let the thief go ,you must be prepared to bear the ______.

        a. sequence       b.consequent    c.consequences

3  We simply can't understand the reason for the editor's_____ on facts and statistics.

        a. persistence    b.requirement   c.insistence

4.  After a year's preparation,the historian is ready to write a book _____ the disturbance that took place last year.

         a. about          b.concerned       c.with

5.  In ancient China,people used to build a wall that ______ a city.

         a.around        b.surrounded     c.round

6.  I am your guide and I have been _____ to show you the city.

         a.instructed    b.informed        c.said

7.  We think his suggestion is worth______.

         a. to be considered  b.considering  c.being considered

8.  The magazine  _______  to press. (l.10)

     a. was    b. had gone    c. was about to go    d. was due

9.  He informed _____ while carrying out his instructions. (ll.15-16)

      a. his arrest to the editor       b. the editor his arrest

      c. the editor of his arrest       d. the editor that his arrest had been

10. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their _____ with unimportant facts and statistics. (ll.1-2)

   a. audience    b. lectures    c. public   d. common

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