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Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people even try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names recorded（记录）in the Guinness Book of Records.
Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled（用桨划）a bathtub（浴缸）145 kilometers for 24 hours. This group had 13 members. They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28 and 29. 1983. A month later, a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes! However, the distance（距离）record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding Center. This team from Edinburgh pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometers in 1979. It took the team 35 days to cover the distance.
Another group of record makers held the highest dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney,Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28, 1989. The climbers carried a dinner table. chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top, they all put on warm suits for dinner.
People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now not all the records will be kept in the Guinness Book of Records.
【小题1】 According to the passage, what record was made near Ashford in May, 1983?

A．A record for paddling a bathtub.
B．A record for climbing a mountain.
C．A record for pushing a hospital bed
D．A record for swimming across a river.
【小题2】The word cover in the passage means _______.
A．startB．go throughC．keepD．know
【小题3】What was unusual about the highest dinner party held by the nine people in the passage?
A．The people who held the dinner party all came from Sydney.
B．Only nine people held the highest dinner party.
C．They had a meal on the mountain.
D．They carried a dinner table and chairs up the mountain to hold the dinner party.
【小题4】Which of the following shows the right order（顺序）of what happened in the passage?
a. A group of 13 members paddled a bathtub on a river near Ashford.
b. A team from Edinburgh made a distance record for hospital bed pushing.
c. A group of nine people from Sydney had a dinner party on the top of Mountain Huascaran.
d. A racing team pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes in Avon.
A．a-b-c-dB．d-b-c-aC．a-d-b-cD．b-a-d-c
【小题5】 Which of the following is mentioned（提及）in the passage?
A．Hospital bed pushing was a popular sport in Edinburgh.
B．People living in Ashford usually used a bathtub to carry things.
C．Two different records for hospital bed pushing were given.
D．Hospital bed pushing was held twice a year in Avon, Great Britain.


【小题1】A
【小题2】B
【小题3】D
【小题4】D
【小题5】C

解析试题分析：这篇短文主要描述了几个世界记录的产生过程。
【小题1】根据One such team paddled（用桨划）a bathtub（浴缸）145 kilometers for 24 hours. This group had 13 members. They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28 and 29. 1983.描述，可知选A。
【小题2】联系下文the distance 距离，可知选B，通过。
【小题3】根据第四段The climbers carried a dinner table. chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top, they all put on warm suits for dinner.描述，可知选D，
【小题4】根据短文描述，可知a发生在1983年5月28日，b发生在1979年，c发生在1989年，d发生在1983年6，故选D。
【小题5】根据短文第二段描述，可知本文提及了两条关于抬病床的记录，故选C。
考点：关于历史记录的说明文阅读
点评：本文难度较大，个别小题需要根据相关内容进行推理总结。首先要认真阅读短文，注意前后联系，掌握短文大意，然后带着问题再读短文，找出相关段落，分析总结，判断出正确选项。文章所设试题主要考察细节查找，做题关键是找出原文的根据，认真核查小题和原文的异同。

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