Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to【B1】______their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last y

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问题 Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to【B1】______their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been【B2】______by a wellknown magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African【B3】______. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then【B4】______to publish it. The article began: "Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which【B5】______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【B6】______of the wail.
    The journalist【B7】______set out to【B8】______these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile,【B9】______He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply.【B10】______. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.【B11】______. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen foot wail which surrounded the president’s palace.
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