[沖刺中考]英語(yǔ)閱讀與填空：6-Tuesday 圖書 212詞

6-Tuesday 圖書 212詞

題材： 圖書　 詞數(shù)： 212　 建議閱讀時(shí)間： 4.5分鐘

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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．

生詞

exactly　adv． 確切地；精確地；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．她不讓別人知道她真正的感受。

fingernail　n． 指甲：She always paints her fingernails bright red．她愛(ài)把指甲涂得鮮紅。

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．

參考譯文

從世界上最重的蘋果、年齡最大的女士到最小的狗，這一切共同組成了世界上最奇怪的人和事。而它們?nèi)汲霈F(xiàn)在《吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄》一書中。

今年8月，這本書將要慶祝它的生日了。它正好創(chuàng)辦于半個(gè)世紀(jì)前。而且它一直是世界上最暢銷的書之一。

現(xiàn)在，人們每周打破的世界紀(jì)錄有一千多項(xiàng)！為什么這么多的人想打破紀(jì)錄呢？他們想讓自己的名字出現(xiàn)在書上，還是想認(rèn)識(shí)更多來(lái)自世界各地的人們？“它使人們有機(jī)會(huì)表明，他們是世界上最優(yōu)秀的。”世界紀(jì)錄保持者斯圖爾特·紐波特說(shuō)。

這本書是由英國(guó)人休·比弗創(chuàng)辦的。1951年，他和朋友外出打鳥，他們談起了歐洲飛得最快的鳥，3年后，他們還在討論這個(gè)問(wèn)題。所以比弗認(rèn)為，人們對(duì)事情的看法肯定不一樣。于是他決定創(chuàng)辦一本記錄世界上真正最偉大的人和事的書。

上周二，該書的最新版本出版了。這本書包含許多有趣的紀(jì)錄。下面就有兩條：

英國(guó)狗惠特尼是世界上最小的狗。它僅有76毫米高。

美國(guó)婦女李·雷蒙德有最長(zhǎng)的指甲。它們長(zhǎng)達(dá)600毫米！她于1971年創(chuàng)造了這項(xiàng)紀(jì)錄。

參考答案

Tuesday 1．D　2．A　3．D　4．B