新概念第三册自学导读 Lessons5

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 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 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. 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 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. New words and expressions生词和短语

editor(1. 1)/'edit+/ n．新概念

publish(1. 6) /'p)bliM/ v．出版

extreme(1. 1) /ik'stri:m/n．极端

fax(1. 7) /f$ks/ n．传真

statistics(1. 2) /st+'tistiks/ n．统计数字

impatient(1. 10) /im'peiM+nt/adj. 不耐烦的

journalist(1. 3) /'d{*:n+list/  n．新闻记者

fire(1. 12) /'fai+/v．解雇

president(1. 4) /'prezid+nt/n．总统

originally(1. 13) /+'rid{in+li/adv．起初，原先，从前

palace(1. 4) /'p$lis/  n．王宫；宏伟的住宅

Notes on the text课文注释

1  go to extremes.  走极端。

2  provide…with…作“向……提供……”解。

3  to write an article on, 写一篇有关的报道。

4  lead to …作“通往……”、“导致……”解

5  go to press, 付印。

6  Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.  这是 not only… but… as well 引导的并列句子，如果将not only置于句首，后面主谓语应采取倒装结构。

参考译文

报刊杂志的新概念常常为了向读者提供成立一些无关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。稿子寄来后，新概念看了第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的：“几百级台阶通向环绕总统府的高墙。”新概念立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。

记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来。在此期间，新概念等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要付印。他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对方毫无反应。于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。但记者还是没有回复。新概念无奈，勉强按原样发稿了。一周之后，新概念终于接到了记者的传真。那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉新概念，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的 1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。

Summary writing摘要写作

In not more than 80 words describe what happened from the time the journalist set out to get the facts. Do not include anything that is not in the last paragraph.

Answer these questions in note form to get your points:

1  Did the journalist immediately set out to get the facts after receiving instructions from his editor or not?

2  Did he send them at once or not?

3  Was the editor getting impatient or not?

4  How many faxes did the editor send?

5  What did the editor threaten to do?

6  Was the last fax answered or not?

7  Was the article omitted from the magazine, or was it printed in its original form?

8  When did the journalist send a fax?

9  Why had he been imprisoned? 

Vocabulary词汇

instructed(1. 3); well-known(1. 3); publish(1. 6); surrounds(1. 7);  fired(1. 12); reluctantly(1. 12).

Composition作文

Describe how the journalist was arrested and what happened afterwards. Expand the following into a paragraph of about 150 words.

The journalist counted the number of steps as he… On arriving outside the main gate, he… He then… in order to measure the wall. While he was busy measuring the wall, a policeman… Though the journalist…, the policeman refused to believe him. He was arrested and sent to prison because the police thought that… When the journalist… he made things worse for himself. This proved to the police that…(69  words)

Letter writing书信写作

Write a letter of about 80 words to a friend who has recently got married. You read about the wedding in your local paper. Supply a suitable Introduction and Conclusion. Use the following ideas to write the Purneighbourhood----hope to see them soon.

Key structures关键句型

A, The and Some. (IKS 78) （参见第2册第 78课关键句型）

Exercises练习

A  Underline the words a(n) and the in the passage and note how they have been used.

B  Write sentences using the following words and phrases:

1  Hudson river.

2  information.

3  cinema.

4  industry.

5  flour and milk.

6  newspaper.

Special difficulties难点

Not only had the poor man  been arrested…(11. 13-14)

在英文中，如果表示否定的副词或副词词组放在句首，就必须后接“助动词+ 主语+ 句子的其他部分”。这种倒装结构特别用来加强语气。

Study these pairs of sentences:

I have never seen so many people.

Never have I seen so many people.

I had hardly finished speaking when the door opened.

Hardly had I finished speaking when the door opened.

(Compare ISD 38a) （对比第2册第 38课难点a）