练习材料：

L5-(1): The facts

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers 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 refused 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 to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them.

[ˈɛdɪtəz] [ɒv] [ˈnjuːzˌpeɪpəz] [ænd] [ˌmægəˈziːnz][ˈɒf(ə)n] [gəʊ] [tuː] [ɪksˈtriːmz] [tuː] [prəˈvaɪd] [ðeə] [ˈriːdəz] [wɪð] [ˌʌnɪmˈpɒtənt][fækts] [ænd] [stəˈtɪstɪks]. [lɑːst] [jɪər] [ə] [ˈʤɜːnəlɪst] [hæd] [biːn][ɪnˈstrʌktɪd] [baɪ] [ə] [wɛl]-[nəʊn] [ˌmægəˈziːn] [tuː] [raɪt] [ən] [ˈɑːtɪkl][ɒn] [ðə] [ˈprɛzɪdənts] [ˈpælɪs] [ɪn] [ə] [njuː] [ˈæfrɪkən] [rɪˈpʌblɪk]. [wɛn][ði] [ˈɑːtɪkl] [əˈraɪvd], [ði] [ˈɛdɪtə] [riːd] [ðə] [fɜːst] [ˈsɛntəns] [ænd][ðɛn] [ˌriːˈfjuːzd] [tuː] [ˈpʌblɪʃ] [ɪt]. [ði] [ˈɑːtɪkl] [bɪˈgæn]: [ˈhʌndrədz][ɒv] [stɛps] [liːd] [tuː] [ðə] [haɪ] [wɔːl] [wɪʧ] [səˈraʊndz] [ðə][ˈprɛzɪdənts] [ˈpælɪs]. [ði] [ˈɛdɪtər] [æt] [wʌns] [sɛnt] [ðə] [ˈʤɜːnəlɪst] [ə][fæks] [ɪnˈstrʌktɪŋ] [hɪm] [tuː] [faɪnd] [aʊt] [ði] [ɪgˈzækt] [ˈnʌmbər] [ɒv][stɛps] [ænd] [ðə] [haɪt] [ɒv] [ðə] [wɔːl]. [ðə] [ˈʤɜːnəlɪst] [ɪˈmiːdiətli] [sɛt] [aʊt] [tuː] [əbˈteɪn][ðiːz] [ɪmˈpɔːtənt] [fækts], [bʌt] [hiː] [tʊk] [ə] [lɒŋ] [taɪm] [tuː] [sɛnd] [ðɛm].

L5-(2): The facts

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 he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

[ˈmiːnˈwaɪl], [ði] [ˈɛdɪtə] [wɒz] [ˈgɛtɪŋ] [ɪmˈpeɪʃənt],[fɔː] [ðə] [ˌmægəˈziːn] [wʊd] [suːn] [gəʊ] [tuː] [prɛs]. [hiː] [sɛnt] [ðə] [ˈʤɜːnəlɪst][tuː] [mɔː] [ˈfæksɪz], [bʌt] [rɪˈsiːvd] [nəʊ] [rɪˈplaɪ]. [hiː] [sɛnt] [jɛt] [əˈnʌðə][fæks] [ɪnˈfɔːmɪŋ] [ðə] [ˈʤɜːnəlɪst] [ðæt] [ɪf] [hiː] [dɪd] [nɒt] [rɪˈplaɪ][suːn] [hiː] [wʊd] [biː] [ˈfaɪəd]. [wɛn] [ðə] [ˈʤɜːnəlɪst] [əˈgɛn] [feɪld][tuː] [rɪˈplaɪ], [ði] [ˈɛdɪtə] [rɪˈlʌktəntli] [ˈpʌblɪʃt] [ði] [ˈɑːtɪkl] [æz][ɪt] [hæd] [əˈrɪʤɪnəli] [biːn] [ˈrɪtn]. [ə] [wiːk] [ˈleɪtə], [ði] [ˈɛdɪtər][æt] [lɑːst] [rɪˈsiːvd] [ə] [fæks] [frɒm] [ðə] [ˈʤɜːnəlɪst]. [nɒt] [ˈəʊnli][hæd] [ðə] [pʊə] [mæn] [biːn] [əˈrɛstɪd], [bʌt] [hiː] [hæd] [biːn] [sɛnt] [tuː][ˈprɪzn] [æz] [wɛl]. [haʊˈɛvə], [hiː] [hæd] [æt] [lɑːst] [biːn] [əˈlaʊd] [tuː][sɛnd] [ə] [fæks] [ɪn] [wɪʧ] [hiː] [ɪnˈfɔːmd] [ði] [ˈɛdɪtə] [ðæt] [hiː] [hæd][biːn] [əˈrɛstɪd] [waɪl] [ˈkaʊntɪŋ] [ðiː] 1,084 [stɛps] [ˈliːdɪŋ] [tuː] [ðiː]15-[fʊt] [wɔːl] [wɪʧ] [səˈraʊndɪd] [ðə] [ˈprɛzɪdənts] [ˈpælɪs].

任务配置：L0 +L4

笔记：

1.听写错误

obtain:[əbˈteɪn]v. (尤指经努力) 获得，赢得; 存在;

reluctantly:adv.不情愿地，勉强地

2.知识点：

（1）go to extremes. 走极端

（2）to write an article on,：写一篇有关的报道

（3）go to press, 付印。

（4）Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as

well. 这是 not only… but… as well 引导的并列句子，如果将not only置于句首，后面主谓语应采取倒装结构。

练习感悟：

这一课听写第一遍的时候简直是崩溃的，感觉一个句子没记住半句，只能拼命将能记住的零星单词都先写下来。听第二遍的时候才真的开始听懂每句话在表达什么，补充了很多细节，第三遍的时候差不多都补全了，虽然有些单词也是记不住拼写大概是靠发音来拼的。最后正确率竟然有96%，简直惊呆了我！

把能记的能懂的先整下来，多来几遍，总会弄完的。