Ⅲ.语法填空
(2014·豫东、豫北十所名校阶段性测试五)
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：本文介绍了《吉尼斯世界纪录》这本书的灵感从何而来。
答案：
1.There 只有一处地方，就是《吉尼斯世界纪录》。there be句型表示“有”。
2.Welcome 由上下文可知，此处是主持人的欢迎词，所以填welcome“欢迎”。
3.flew 此处介绍过去的一段经历，全部用一般过去时态。
4.what wonder后接宾语从句，从句中was缺少表语，所以填what。
5.nearest 由常识可知，应该去最近的(nearest)图书馆查找信息。
6.must 由句意可知，此处表示非常肯定的推测。一定有和他一样想要寻找这一信息的人。
7.him/himself 介词like后接宾语，所以用宾格形式或者反身代词。
8.curiosity satisfy one's curiosity“满足某人的好奇心”。
9.the 想有一本世界纪录的想法诞生了。此处表示特指。
10.to answer 不定式表示目的。
