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Did you read the book Guinness World Records (《吉尼斯世界纪录》）before? From the world's heaviest person and the oldest woman to the world's smallest dog, these are all parts of the strangest people and things. And they are all in the Guinness World Records.

People celebrate its birthday in August. 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 theUnited   Kingdom. In 1951， he went shooting (射击) birds and talked with his friends about the fastest bird in Europe. Three years later, they started a book to record the world's greatest people and things ！

One of the books came out on Tuesday. There arc twelve parts in this book. It talks about the natural world, people's achievements, sports and other things. This book has a lot of interesting records. Here are two:

The world's smallest dog is only 10cm long.

An American woman has the longest fingernails (指甲).They grew as long as 600mm ！

      (       )1.   The word "strangest" means in Chinese.

A.最友好的         B.最奇怪的

C最活跃的         D.最有天赋的

(       )2.  Guinness World Records started to record
world records about       years ago.

A.   twenty            B. forty

C.   sixty             D. seventy

(       )3.   Many people want to break the records because they want to .

A.   win prizes

B.    be famous

C.    meet more people in the world

D.   show they are the best in the world

       (       )4.   From this  article,   we  can  know that

   A.    Hugh Beaver is fromAmerica

B.    Hugh  Beaver started  the book Guinness World Records by himself

C.    Guinness World Records  only talks about peoples achievements

D.    the  world's   smallest dog   is only 10cm long

         (       )5.  What does this article mainly talk about?

A.   The world's smallest dog.

B.    The world's greatest man.

C.    The book Guinness World Records.

D.   People who broke world records.

Summer is coming. The 1.      becomes

hotter and hotter. A lot of people like 2.      in the swimming pools or in the sea. They think water makes them 3.      cool. But some people are not careful enough. They often think they can swim 4.         than others and they don't have to worry about anything. So these years, many accidents happened and some people 5      . their lives. Most of them were students. As we all know, safety is the most important. Do you know 6.       to protect yourself? To protect yourself, you must be careful. Remember not to swim  in a

7.       place. Don't swim alone, and when you see a "No Swimming" sign, don't swim, 8.        Of course, you can swim 9.       someone who can keep you safe. If you remember these, swimming 10.      safer.

5.   You are  young  in our class.

A    B    C

4.   The Big Screen is  better  than others cinemas

A         B

in town.

C 

3.  We can buy tickets much quickly here.

 A      B            C

2. The new house is   very   more beautiful than   

                A          B      C    

other houses

D 

1. Of all the stores ， Jason's is bad.

A     B              C 

(       )10.  ― How far is the mall from your school?
—About________ .

A.   ten minutes

B.    ten minutes walk

C.    ten minutes on foot

D.   ten minutes' on foot

(       )9.  ―What's the best movie theater?

—It's Movie World. It has.         screen.

A.  big                    B. bigger

C.  the biggest             D. biggest