英语口语竞赛试题新人教整理
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