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.

任务配置：

L0＋L4

知识笔记：

新词：editor 编者；extreme 极端的，困境；journalist 记者；republic 共和国；surround 包围；exact 精密的，准确的；obtain 得到；

练习感悟：

成功早起还是很开心的！！相对来说完成得会比前几天更好吧。