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标题: LESSON 24 The facts [打印本页]

作者: tingroom 时间: 2010-12-25 14:41 标题: LESSON 24 The facts

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(1)_____________________________.Last year,a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an artical on the president's palace in the new African republic.When the artical arrived ,the editor read the first sentence ,then refused to publish it.The artical begin:"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 the steps and the height of the wall.

The journalist immediatly 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 was soon go to press.He sent the journalist two more faxes,but recieved no reply.(2)_____________________________.

When the journalist again failed to reply ,the editor reluctantly published the artical as it had originally been writen.
A week later ,the editor at last recieved the fax from the journalist.Not only had the poor man had been arrested,but he had been sent to prison as well.However ,he had at last been allowed to send a fax,(3)___________________.

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作者: billdraaa 时间: 2010-12-26 18:14

1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go into extremes to provide the readers unimportant facts and statistics
2. he sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon, he will be fired
3. in which he informed the editor he had been arrested, while counting the 1084 steps leading to the fifteen feet wall which surrounded the president's palace

作者: 嘻游记 时间: 2010-12-26 19:44

1。editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.
2,he sent yet another fax,informing the journalist that if he didn't reply soon he would be fired.
3.in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested,while counting the 1084 steps leading to the fifteen feet wall which surrounded the president's palace.

作者: mushui 时间: 2011-1-5 14:56

听听，听力不行啊。。。

作者: missyouhuang 时间: 2011-4-11 14:40

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide the readers with unimportant facts and statistics
He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he will be fired
in which informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1084 steps leading to the 15 foot wall which surounded the president's palace

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