1. One day, a woman from The Express News called. She said she wanted to work on a(n)
on me. When she had finished
me for the article, she asked, “What are you planning to do next?”
Well, at that
, there was actually nothing I was planning on doing next, and what _
59 out for us was, “I’m thinking about
the Guinness Book of World Records for Fastest-Talking Female.”
The newspaper article came out the next day, and the writer had
my final remarks(评论)about trying to break the World’s Fastest-Talking Female record. At about 5:00 that afternoon, I got a
from Larry King, asking me to go on the
. They would
me up at 8:00 — because they wanted me to do it that night!
I
the phone for a while, and then I called Guinness to find out
to break a fast-talking record. They told me I would have to recite something. I began
. I was both
and excited at the same time.
At 8:00, the car came. I practised the whole way there, and by the time I reached the __
_. I was tongue-tied. I asked the woman in charge, “What
I don’t break the record?”
“Larry doesn’t
if you break it or not,” she said. ” “He just cares that you try it on his show.” So I asked myself, “What’s the
that can happen? I’ll look like a fool on television!” A
thing, I told myself,
I could live through that. And what if I break the record?
So I decided just to give it my best shot, and I did. I broke the record, becoming the World’s Fastest-Talking Female
speaking 585 words in one minute!
【小题1】 | A.article | B.experiment | C.research | D.study |
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【小题2】 | A.studying | B.interviewing | C.calling | D.praising |
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【小题3】 | A.day | B.university | C.time | D.century |
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【小题4】 | A.provided | B.gave | C.took | D.came |
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【小题5】 | A.setting | B.breaking | C.playing | D.holding |
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【小题6】 | A.set | B.made | C.spoke | D.included |
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【小题7】 | A.time | B.chance | C.call | D.notice |
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【小题8】 | A.show | B.stage | C.movie | D.book |
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【小题9】 | A.bring | B.pick | C.call | D.drive |
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【小题10】 | A.thought of | B.stared at | C.went through | D.heard of |
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【小题11】 | A.what | B.whether | C.when | D.how |
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【小题12】 | A.practicing | B.singing | C.learning | D.reading |
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【小题13】 | A.horrible | B.tired | C.nervous | D.happy |
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【小题14】 | A.studio(演播室) | B.theatre | C.lab | D.office |
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【小题15】 | A.unless | B.if | C.though | D.how |
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【小题16】 | A.wonder | B.consider | C.care | D.know |
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【小题17】 | A.best | B.most | C.least | D.worst |
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【小题18】 | A.small | B.nice | C.terrible | D.big |
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【小题19】 | A.reading | B.carrying | C.thinking | D.going |
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