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　　(2014·豫東、豫北十所名校階段性測試五)

　　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 Guinness Book 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. So __10__(answer) your question: the tallest person in the world is 231.7cm tall.

　　文章大意：本文介紹了《吉尼斯世界紀錄》這本書的靈感從何而來。

　　答案：

　　1.There　只有一處地方，就是《吉尼斯世界紀錄》。there be句型表示“有”。

　　2.Welcome　由上下文可知，此處是主持人的歡迎詞，所以填welcome“歡迎”。

　　3.flew　此處介紹過去的一段經歷，全部用一般過去時態(tài)。

　　4.what　wonder后接賓語從句，從句中was缺少表語，所以填what。

　　5.nearest　由常識可知，應該去最近的(nearest)圖書館查找信息。

　　6.must　由句意可知，此處表示非�？隙ǖ耐茰y。一定有和他一樣想要尋找這一信息的人。

　　7.him/himself　介詞like后接賓語，所以用賓格形式或者反身代詞。

　　8.curiosity　satisfy one's curiosity“滿足某人的好奇心”。

　　9.the　想有一本世界紀錄的想法誕生了。此處表示特指。

　　10.to answer　不定式表示目的。