2012全国听力原文.pdf

M: Thank you. You too. Text 10 W: Where can you look if you want to know how tall the tallest person in the world is or who the oldest person in the world is? There is only one place where you’ll find all this information. And that’s the Guinness book of records . This morning, we have someone from the Guinness Company that produces that famous book, Thomas Manning. Welcome to the program, Thomas. M: Thanks, Sue. It’s a pleasure to be here. W: Perhaps you can start by telling us where the idea for the book came from. W: Well, it was first suggest ed in the early 1950s. Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of Guinness, was out shooting birds with some friends. A bird flew away so quickly that no one was able to shoot it. Sir Hugh wondered whether this bird was the fastest bird in Europe. And if it wasn’t the fastest, He wondered what was. W: So I suppose he went to the nearest library to look for the information and he couldn’t find it.