3. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'.
• The article says/begins/reads/as follows... 这篇文章称... • 例句：The article says China's reform is benefiting the country and others. • • • • • • • 数字的一些表达方法： tens of 几十 dozens of几十 tens of thousands of 数万的 tens of millions of 数千万的 hundreds of millions of 数亿的 thousands upon thousands people 成百上千的人
1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide theitatistics.
• go to extremes 走极端 • • • • provide = supply 给...提供.常与介词搭配用 provide sb with sth / provide sth for sb 给某人... 例句：He provided them with a bed for the night. = He provided a bed for them for the night
• be allowed to do sth=be permitted to do sth 被允许做某事 • 例句：He is allowed to wathc TV from 7 to 8 in the evening. • in which中which指代fax
• while和现在分词搭配，做时间状语，表示“正在做某事的过程中” • while counting=while he was counting
• inform sb that... 通知，告诉 • inform sb of sth 告诉某人某事 • 例句：Please inform him that he has an exam tomorrow.
6. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.
7. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.
Not only位于句首, 必须采用倒装形式。 本句可还原为：The poor man had not only been arrested, but had been sent to prison as well.
• instruct v. 教导，命令，指示 • instruct sb to do sth=tell sb to do sth 正式告诉某人做某事 • 例句：The teacher instructed him to take the exam. • on=about 关于 • 例子：a book on musci
• fail to do sth 没能做成某事 • 例句：He failed to keep the word. never fail to do sth 总能做到某事 be reluctant to do sth=be unwilling to do sth 勉勉强强，不情愿做某事 例句：He is reluctant to do his homework.
Expressions
• • • • • • • • • • be allowed to do sth 被允许做某事 fail to do sth 没能做成某事 never fail to do sth 总能做到某事 yet another 还有一个，再 inform sb of sth 告诉某人某事 go to extremes 走极端 provide sb with sth / provide sth for sb 给某人某物... lead to 通向，导致 instruct sb to do sth 正式告诉某人做某事 go to press 付印
• 倒装：（部分倒装）的情况： • 1>以下否定副词位于句首, 要倒装。 • never, seldom, rarely, little, hardly, scarcely（几乎不, 简直没有） • 例句：Never have I read such stories. 我从来也没读过这样的小说。 Hardly did I think it possible. 我并不认为这是可能的。
5. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.
• yet another 还有一个，再 • 例句：I've made yet another mistake.
• Provide against sth.防备发生某事 • 例句：The government has to provide against a possible oil shortage in the coming months
2. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a wellknown magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.
• lead to 通向，导致 • 例句：This is the road leading to the universtiy.
• surround v. 围绕，环绕 • 例句： She was surrounded by reporters. 她被记者包围住了
4. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them.
2>含有only的状语位于句首, 句子要倒装。 • 例句：Only then did he realize that he had made a mistake.
3>含有not的副词短语位于句首, 句子要倒装。 • 常用短语：not for a second 决不, 毫不 / not in the least 绝不, 一点也不 not for an instant 根本不, not until • 例句：Not in the least is he interested in English literature. 他对英国文学 一点都不感兴趣。 • Not for an instant did I believe he had lied. 我根本不认为他说了慌。
Lesson 5
The facts
New words
• • • • • • • • • editor n. 编辑 statistics n. 统计数字 president n. 总统 publish v. 出版 impatient adj. 不耐烦的 originally adv. 起初 instruct v. 指导，通知，命令 republic n. 共和国 reluctant adj. 不情愿的 extreme n. 极端 journalist n. 记者 palace n. 王宫 fax n. 传真 fire v. 解雇 magazine n. 杂志 exact adj. 确切的 obtain v. 获得，取得 prison n. 监狱
8. 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.
• set out to do=decide and try to do 决定, 打算, 着手做... • = set about doing 决定, 打算, 着手做... 例句：He set out to make his first 1,000,000 in 5 years. • take sb a long time to do sth. 某事花了某人很久的时间 • 例句：It took me five days to write the article.