新概念英语第三册听力英音版05-TheFacts

1、新概念英语第三册听力英音版 05 The Facts00：01.46Lesson 500 ：03.39The facts00 ：10.90What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics?00 ：18.58Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes00 ：22.95to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.00 ：27.82Last

2、year a journalist had been instructed bya well-known magazine00 ：33.08to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.00 ：38.72When the article arrived,00 ：40.57the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it.00 ：45.87The article began ：00 ：48.02Hundreds

3、 of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.'00 ：53.92The editor at once sent the journalist a fax00 ：57.71instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall01 ：04.45The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts,01

4、 ：09.27but he took a long time to send them.01 ：11.89Meanwhile,the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press.01 ：18.79He sent the journalist two more faxes,but received no reply.01 ：24.55He sent yet another fax informing the journalist01 ：27.89that if he did not reply soo

5、n he would be fired.01 ：32.41When the journalist again failed to reply,01 ：36.09the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.01 ：42.34A week later,the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.01 ：47.92Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.01 ：53.68However,he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor01 ：59.43that he had been arrested while counting the 1,08