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1、Guinness World Records吉吉 界界尼尼 紀(jì)紀(jì)斯斯 錄錄世世 In 1951,the then director of the Guinness Brewery, Sir Hugh Beaver, wanted to settle an argument about the fastest bird in Europe.After talking to his friends,he concluded that a book which answered such questions must be popular. The Guinness Company hirded t

2、ow English man to write what later became Guinness Book of World Records. The first edition was published in 1955 and has been a best-seller ever since.Sir Hugh Beaver and his book=More than 60,000 new records are sent into the book each year, but they cannot all be printed. So the records are put i

3、nto diffient categories.Chapters1)The humman being 2)The animal and plant kingdoms 3)The natural world4)The universe and space 5)The science world 6)The art and entertainment7)The words structures 8)The mechanical world 9)The business world10)The humman world 11) Human achievements12)sports,games&am

4、p;pastimeThere are a lot of amazing pictures, some are unbelieveable and some are crazy. Now let me tell you the stories of these pictures.The tallest man in the worldSultan Kosen from Turkey is the tallest man in the world. He is now 2.46m tall. He also has the biggest hands and biggest feet.Yao Mi

5、n-2.29mBao Xishun-2.36mThe tallest boy in our class-1.82mThe tallest girl in our class-1.72mMe-1.63m Sultan Kosen-2.46mHe is He Pingping from China, and he is the shortest person in the wurld. Unfortunately he died in his 21this year.He is just 74.61cm,looks like a two-year-old kid.The woman is 1.98

6、m tall and her legs reach a length of 1.32m.He Pingping is just as tall as her crus.The tallest man and the shortest man.Look at their nails!The woman is named Lee Redmond ,her nails are 8.65m long in all. She didnt cut her fingernails since 1979.But her record was broken by Melvin Boo whose nails a

7、re 9.85m long in all.The world is crazy!The girl is Xie Qiuping who has the longest hair. This picture was taken in 1994.At that time, the length of her hair was 3.869m.But nowHer hair is 5.627m in 2005. Of course her hair is gorwing longer and longer.Look! They are santa clausesIt happened in septe

8、mber 9,2007.12965 santa clauses gathered at north Ireland.This is a cucumber which was raised up in the UK,it had a length of 104.78cmThese are lemons which were raised up in Israel,the largest one weight 5.265kg.A hugh Africa millepede(千足蟲）千足蟲）,it is 38.7cm long and has 256 feet.This kind of millep

9、ede usually has a length of 16-28cm, so this one is the longest.The biggest snail and an ordinary snail.The biggest one is 39.3cm long in all.Its shell is 17.3cm long.This snail is not only the biggest snail,but also the biggest gastropod(腹足動(dòng)物）腹足動(dòng)物）in the world.There are so many world records.There are so many world records.The biggest snake(7.32m)The dog who has the biggest ears(34.2cm&34.9cm).There are so many world records.There are so many world records.The biggest ice cream.The bigge