新概念英语3第五课

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader 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 refuse 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 find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts,but the took a long time to send them Meanwhile,the editor was getting impatient,for the magazine would soon go to press.He sent the journalist 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 article as it had originally been written.A week later,the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.Not 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 the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace. 报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供成立一些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,编辑看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的高墙.”编辑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,编辑等得不耐烦了,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.编辑无奈,勉强按原样发稿了.一周之后,编辑终于接到记者的传真.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.在传真中他告诉编辑,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.

95:While the Ambassador of Escalopia was in his office,university students set ghe basement of the Embassy on fire.When the Ambassador went to investigate,a man called Horst aimed a fire extingisher at him because he thought that the Ambassador was on fire.Moreover,there was a hole in the Ambassador's hat which had been made when someone fired a shot through his office window.The Ambassador was lucky,for he was not wearing it at the fire.(78)The Ambassador of Escalopia was in his offic when university students set the Embassy basement on fire.After the Ambassador had gone to investigate,a man called Horst aimed a fire extinguisher at him under the impression that the Ambassador was on fire.In addition to this,there was a hole in the Ambassador's hat.It had been made when someone fired a shot through his office window.It was lucky for the Ambassador that he was not wearing it .(79)96:The Japanese annual Festival for the Dead is a cheerful occasion.As the dead are said to return home,food is laid out for them and lanterns are lit to guide them on their way.People dance and sing all night and the uneaten food is thrown into the sea or into a rive the next mornging.In some places,the langerns are placed on the sea and people watch from the shore until the alnetrns drift out of sight.(80)The Japanese annual Festival for the Dead is a cheerful occasion,for the dead are said to return home.Not only is food laid out for them,but lanterns are lit to guide them as well while people dance and sing all night.The uneaten food is thrown into the sea or a river the next morning. In some places,the lanterns are placed on the sea.People watch from the shore as the lanterns drift out of sight.(79)

1、选a更好。 中间是逗号，没有连词。所以只能是非谓语，排除C 逻辑关系是主动的，排除D AB的区别是，reading是一看到第一句，编辑就拒绝出版。having read是看到第一句之后过了一段时间，编辑才拒绝出版。2、typed只是指“打字，排版”，printed指”印刷”。既然要go to press（发表给媒体），当然要印刷版的了。如果有疑问，欢迎追问，如果有帮助，请记得及时采纳哦，亲……。