今天小编带来了新概念英语相关的一些知识点分享，希望对大家的学习有所帮助，祝愿大家的英语水平提升。
editor 编辑，edit vt 编制，编辑
go to extremes 走向极端 go/run to the extreme of sth.具体某个极端的手段
provide sb with sth 向。。。提供。。。（有时直接使用双宾语)
instruct sb to do sth 指示某人做某事
receiving a letter instructing sb to do sth 经常用现在分词充当定语
这里使用 had been intructed 是因为这个动作发生在之后的过去动作之前
an article on sth 有关。。（话题）的文章
write...on...写有关。。。的。。。
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 article arrived， reports came
refuse to do sth
lead to sth 通往， lead to (doing) sth 导致
the events that led to the start of the First World War 导致一、次世界大战爆发的事件
lead sb to s.p. 把某人带往某地
sth lead sb to do sth 某事导致某人做某事
The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing 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 hetook a long time to send them.
at once 立刻
instructing 现在分词充当状语
find out 找出
set out to do 出发做某事
sb takes time to do sth 某人花时间做某事
take 表“花费”3种说法：1.it 形式主语；2.事情或形为做主语；3. 人做主语
Painting the room took me a whole afternoon.
I took a whole afternoon to paint the room.
Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing him that if he didn’t reply soon he would be fired.
get impatient 系表结构
go to press 付印
sent yet another fax informing him...现在分词充当状语
yet another 又一个，yet 强调
When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had been originally written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.
fail to do sth 没做某事
as 引导的方式状语从句，原来写的那个样子
Just do as I said. 按照我说的去做
a week later, a week before
Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.
not only 倒装

表示否定的副词或副词词组前置，构成部分倒装（助动词前置）
no sooner ...than...
hardly.... when...
Never has no many people been there before.
little, seldom, on no account(绝不)
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 1084 steps leading to the fifteen-footwall which surrounded the president’s palace.
be allowed to do
in which 从句，介词后面的关系代词不可以使用that
while counting 分词充当状语，while 两个动作同时发生
leading to 修饰steps
fifteen-foot high, deep,wide,long