Lesson 5 The facts

go to extremes走极端

provide... with...向。。提供。。

go to press付印

suspicious,adj. 可疑的；怀疑的；多疑的

fired---同义词----dismissed

reluctant---同义词---unwilling

inform sb of sth

be admitted doing sth

found:1) 是find的过去式 2） 本身有动词的意思，建立，创立

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The journalist immediately set out to get the facts after receiving instructions from his editor. He didn't send them at once, but take a long time to reply these problems. In fact, his editor wad impatient, and send two more faxes to this journalist. The editor meaned that if the journalist hadn't replied the answer soon he would be fired. However, the last fax didn't be answered by the journalist. In this setting, the orginal article was printed to the specific magazine. A week later, the journalist sent a fax to inform the editor of his arrest while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounds the president's palace.

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在英文中，如果表示否定的副词或副词词组放在拒收，就必须后接“助动词+主语+句子的其他成分”。这种倒装结构特别用来加强语气。

For instance,

1)  I have never seen so many people.-------------------------Never have I seen so many people.

2) I had hardly finished speaking when the door opened.--------------------------Hardly had I finished speaking when the door opened.

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1) _____the first sentence, the editor refused to publish the article. (A) Reading (B) Having reading (C) He read (D) Being read

解析：分词短语可用于表示句中的时间状语。一般式的分词短语常用来表示该分词动作与主句动词动作同时或几乎同时发生；当分词动作与主句动作有明显的先后顺序时，通常需将该分词用完成式来表示。B