学习英语,高分作文必背新概念英语三1-60课

payment：（商业、信贷）支付的款项（非常正式）

wages：（体力劳动者的）工资

salary：（白领的）薪水

10... B companion n.同伴, 共事者 comrade n.朋友, 同志, 伙伴

11... C "well worth the loss of money"

pay back 偿还, 报复

reward 酬劳 value 价值

compensate v.偿还, 补偿

compensate for赔偿 = make up for弥补

-- His intelligence more than compensate for his lack of experience.

12... A call = addressed as被称为

name命名 / cry out喊叫 / shout v.呼喊, 呼叫

·Lesson 5 The facts 确切数字
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What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics?

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.

New words and expressions 生词和短语

editor
n. 编辑

extreme
n. 极端

statistics
n. 统计数字

journalist
n. 新闻记者

president
n. 总统

palace
n. 王宫；宏伟的住宅

publish
v. 出版

fax
n
. 传真

impatient
adj. 不耐烦的

fire
v. 解雇

originally
adv. 起初，原先，从前

参考译文

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