The Facts
Vocabulary:
Editor (n.) = a person in charge of a newspaper or a magazine
Magazine (n.) = mag inf.
Extreme (n.) = the greatest or highest degree of sth.
Unimportant (adj.) = inconsequential = trivial = insignificant
Statistics (n.) = numbers
Journalist (n.) = reporter = correspondent = pressman Br.
Instruct (v.) = order
Well-known (adj.) = famous = renowned = celebrated
Publish (v.) = print
Wall (n.) = fence
Send (v.) = dispatch
Telegram (n.) = Cable
Exact (adj.) = accurate = precise
Set out (v.) = start doing sth.
Obtain (v.) = attain = gain = get
(In the) meanwhile (adj.) = (in the) meantime
Get (v.) = become =grow
Impatient (adj.) = annoyed or irritated because of waiting.
Urgent (adj.) = that need to be dealt with immediately = pressing
Reply (n.) = response = answer
Yet (adv.) = still
Inform (v.) = notify = tell
Reply (v.) = answer
Fire (v.) = dismiss = sack = give the sack
Fail to reply = not reply
Reluctantly (adv.) = unwillingly = hesitantly
Originally (adv.) = initially
At (long) last (adv.) = finally = eventually = in the end
Poor (adj.) = deserving sympathy
Arrest (v.) = apprehend
Prison = jail = Br. goal = Am. penitentiary = pokey
Allow (v.) = permit
Answers of the comprehension questions:
1- The journalist immediately set out to get the facts after receiving instructions from his editor.
2- He did not send them at once.
3- The editor was getting impatient.
4- He sent three telegrams.
5- He threatened to sack the journalist.
6- The last telegram was not answered.
7- The article was printed in its original form.
8- The journalist sent a telegram a week later.
9- He had been imprisoned because he got near the president s palace.
The précis:
Although the journalist immediately set out to get the facts after receiving instructions from his editor, he did not send them at once. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, so he sent three telegrams threatening to sack the journalist. When the last telegram was not answered either, the article was printed in its original form. A week later, the journalist eventually sent a telegram notifying the editor that he had been imprisoned because he got near the president s palace. (79 words)
المادة المعروضة اعلاه هي مدخل الى المحاضرة المرفوعة بواسطة استاذ(ة) المادة . وقد تبدو لك غير متكاملة . حيث يضع استاذ المادة في بعض الاحيان فقط الجزء الاول من المحاضرة من اجل الاطلاع على ما ستقوم بتحميله لاحقا . في نظام التعليم الالكتروني نوفر هذه الخدمة لكي نبقيك على اطلاع حول محتوى الملف الذي ستقوم بتحميله .
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