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[00:11.65]5 确切数字
[00:23.30]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:26.84]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:30.38]What was the consequence of the editor's insistenceon facts and statistics?
[00:38.71]编辑坚持确切数据的结果是什么?
[00:47.05]Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes
[00:50.98]报刊杂志的编辑常常走向极端,
[00:54.91]to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics
[00:57.78]而原因仅仅是为了向读者提供数据.
[01:00.66]Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine
[01:03.99]去年,一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托
[01:07.32]to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.
[01:10.70]写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章
[01:14.08]When the article arrived,
[01:15.86]稿子寄来后,
[01:17.64]the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it.
[01:20.91]编辑看了第一句话就拒绝予以发表.
[01:24.19]The article began:
[01:25.72]文章的开头是这样的:
[01:27.25]Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.'
[01:30.74]"几百级台阶通向环绕总统府的高墙."
[01:34.22]The editor at once sent the journalist a fax