听力材料
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
知识点:go to extremes 走极端；write an article on写一篇有关......的报道；
学习感悟
第三册NEC除了朗读不知该做什么，读完很多时候并不是很理解，句子也越来越长，就当张嘴练习了，
