《新版新概念英语第三册(英音)Lesson (05)》歌词

歌手：朗文

时长： 02:17

Lesson 5[00:00:02]

The facts[00:00:03]

What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics?[00:00:10]

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes[00:00:17]

to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.[00:00:22]

Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine[00:00:27]

to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.[00:00:32]

When the article arrived,[00:00:38]

the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it.[00:00:40]

The article began:[00:00:45]

Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.'[00:00:47]

The editor at once sent the journalist a fax[00:00:53]

instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall[00:00:57]

The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts,[00:01:04]

but he took a long time to send them.[00:01:09]

Meanwhile,the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press.[00:01:12]

He sent the journalist two more faxes,but received no reply.[00:01:19]

He sent yet another fax informing the journalist[00:01:25]

that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.[00:01:29]

When the journalist again failed to reply,[00:01:33]

the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.[00:01:38]

A week later,the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.[00:01:43]

Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.[00:01:49]

However,he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor[00:01:55]

that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps[00:02:01]

leading to the 15 foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.[00:02:07]

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