[冲刺中考]英语阅读与填空：6-Tuesday 图书 212词

6-Tuesday 图书 212词

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From the world's heaviest apple，the oldest lady to the world's smallest dog，these are all part of a group of the world's strangest people and things．And they are all in the Guinness Book of Records.

The book is going to celebrate its birthdays this August．It began exactly half a century ago．And it's always one of the best selling books in the world．

People now can break over 1,000 records every week！Why do so many people want to break the records？Do they want their names in the book or meet more people around the world？“It gives people a chance to show they're the best in the world，”said one of the record keepers Stewart Newport.

The book was started by Hugh Beaver from Britain．In 1951，he went shooting birds and talked with his friends about the fastest bird in Europe．Three years later，they were still talking about it．So Beaver believed that people must have different ideas．So，he decided to start a book to record the world's truly greatest people and things in it！

The newest book came out last Tuesday．This book has a lot of interesting records．Here are two：

A British dog，Whitney，is the world's smallest dog．It's only 76mm tall．

An American woman Lee Readmond has the longest fingernails．They grew as long as 600mm！She made the record in 1971．

生词

exactly　adv． 确切地；精确地；正好：That's exactly what I expected．那正是我所期待的。

truly　adv． 真正地：She didn't let anyone know what she truly felt．她不让别人知道她真正的感受。

fingernail　n． 指甲：She always paints her fingernails bright red．她爱把指甲涂得鲜红。

1．We can see everything in the Guinness Book of Records except ________．

A．the heaviest fruits and vegetables

B．the smallest people and animals

C．the strangest people and things

D．very ordinary people and things

2．The Guinness Book of Records has been one of the best selling books for ________．

A．50 years

B．76 years

C．600 years

D．1,000 years

3．Newport thought many people tried to break Guinness records because ________．

A．their names could be kept in the world records

B．their names could be seen by the whole world

C．they could meet more people all over the world

D．they could be known as the greatest by the world

4．Which of the following is right according to the passage？

A．Newport started the Guinness Book of Records in Britain．

B．More than four thousand records are broken each month．

C．The Guinness Book of Records started in the year 1954．

D．The newest book of Guinness comes out every Tuesday．

参考译文

从世界上最重的苹果、年龄最大的女士到最小的狗，这一切共同组成了世界上最奇怪的人和事。而它们全都出现在《吉尼斯世界纪录》一书中。

今年8月，这本书将要庆祝它的生日了。它正好创办于半个世纪前。而且它一直是世界上最畅销的书之一。

现在，人们每周打破的世界纪录有一千多项！为什么这么多的人想打破纪录呢？他们想让自己的名字出现在书上，还是想认识更多来自世界各地的人们？“它使人们有机会表明，他们是世界上最优秀的。”世界纪录保持者斯图尔特·纽波特说。

这本书是由英国人休·比弗创办的。1951年，他和朋友外出打鸟，他们谈起了欧洲飞得最快的鸟，3年后，他们还在讨论这个问题。所以比弗认为，人们对事情的看法肯定不一样。于是他决定创办一本记录世界上真正最伟大的人和事的书。

上周二，该书的最新版本出版了。这本书包含许多有趣的纪录。下面就有两条：

英国狗惠特尼是世界上最小的狗。它仅有76毫米高。

美国妇女李·雷蒙德有最长的指甲。它们长达600毫米！她于1971年创造了这项纪录。

参考答案

Tuesday 1．D　2．A　3．D　4．B