Sarah :What can you refer to if you want to know how tall the tallest person in the world is? 1. is only one place ,where you will find the information. And that ' s the GuinnessBook of World Records. This morning we have someone from the Guinness Company that produced that famous book , Tomas Manning. 2. to the program, Tomas !

Tomas : Thanks, Sarah. It ' s a pleasure to be here.

Sarah : Perhaps you could start by telling us where the idea for the book came from?

Tomas : Well ,it was first suggested in the early 1950s. Sir Hugh Beaver .the managing director of Guinness, was out shooting birds with some friends. A bird 3. ( fly) away so quickly that no one was able to shoot it. Sir Hugh wondered whether this bird was the fastest bird in Europe. And it wasn't the fastest. He wondered 4. it was.

Sarah :So I suppose he went to the 5. ( near) library to look for the information and he couldn't find it.

Tomas : Yeah , that ' s exactly what happened. And this made Sir Hugh think there 6. be other people in the same situation who wanted this kind of information. He thought that , like 7. ,people would be interested in finding facts about the records to satisfy their 8. ( curious) .

Sarah : So 9. idea for a book of records was born. And when did the first book' come out ?Tomas : A few years later, in 1955. S0 10. ( answer) your question : the tallest person in the world is 231. 7cm tall.

 

1.There

2.Welcome

3.flew

4.what

5.nearest

6.must

7.him/himself

8.curiosity

9.the

10.to answer

【解析】

1.There

【試題解析】固定句式There is only one place…本句中的there be表示“存在有…”。只有一個地方你可以找到這個信息，那就是吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄。

2.2】Welcome

【試題解析】交際用語，Welcome to…歡迎來到…；

3.3】flew

【試題解析】 這一段是敘述吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄這一想法的起源，敘述的是過去的事情，所以使用一般過去時。

4.4】what

【試題解析】本句是一個賓語從句，what it was作為動詞wonder的賓語。句意：他想知道這種鳥是不是世界上飛得最快的鳥。如果不是，那么什么鳥是最快的。What在這個句子充當(dāng)is后面的表語。

5.5】nearest

【試題解析】句意：我認(rèn)為他去最近的圖書館查詢有關(guān)信息，但是沒有找到。

6.6】must

【試題解析】 句意：這讓他意外地一定有其他的人遇見了相同的情況。本句中的情態(tài)動詞must表示確定的事情。

7.7】him/himself

【試題解析】本句中使用反身代詞，表示強調(diào)。句意：他想和他自己一樣，人們會很感興趣去發(fā)現(xiàn)這些記錄來滿足自己的好奇心。

8.8】curiosity

【試題解析】本句中放在their后面要使用名詞，形容詞curious的名詞是curiousity。

9.9】the

【試題解析】本句中的名詞idea的后面有介詞短語of…修飾，說明這里的idea表示的是特指。

10.0】to answer

【試題解析】本句中的不定式to answer….在句中做目的狀語。句意：為了回答你的問題…..

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