Sarah :What can you refer to if you want to know how tall the tallest person in the world is?小题1: is only one place ,where you will find the information. And that ' s the GuinnessBook of World Records. This morning we have someone from the Guinness Company that produced that famous book , Tomas Manning. 小题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 小题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 小题4: it was.
Sarah :So I suppose he went to the 小题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 小题6: be other people in the same situation who wanted this kind of information. He thought that , like 小题7: ,people would be interested in finding facts about the records to satisfy their 小题8: ( curious) .
Sarah : So 小题9: idea for a book of records was born. And when did the first book' come out ?Tomas : A few years later, in 1955. S0 小题10: ( answer) your question : the tallest person in the world is 231. 7cm tall.
