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
____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!
1. | A．article | B．experiment | C．research |
2. | A．studying | B．interviewing | C．calling |
3. 4. 5. | A．setting | B．breaking | C．playing |
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. | A．thought of | B．stared at | C．went through |
11. 12. | A．practicing | B．singing | C．learning |
13. | A．horrible | B．tired | C．nervous |
14. | A．studio(演播室) | B．theatre | C．lab |
15. 16. 17. 18. 19. | A．reading | B．carrying | C．thinking |
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