M: That sounds fine. Would you please go ahead and do that?
W: We’d be very happy to, but it’ll take at least a week. Maybe ten days. We’ll call you when it comes in. M: Thank you very much. W: You are welcome. Text 9
W: Hi, Joe, many people in our department are leaving for Thanksgiving. What are you going to do?
M: I think I’ll just stay at home. I may see some friends and watch a few DVDs. And I probably would go to the Ottawa Car Show. What about you, Ariel? What’s your plan?
W: I am going to do some traveling with my family. M: Oh, where to?
W: Toronto. And on our way, we’re going to visit my aunt Betty, in Kingston.
M: That’s exciting .How long do you plan to stay?
W: Two days, I have a get-together party with my college friends on the 10th in Toronto. Oh, I’m afraid I’ve got to go now. My husband is waiting for me. And we’ll have to pick up Daniel from school. Have a nice holiday, Joe! 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 these 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. Welcome to the program, Tomas! M: Thanks Sue. It’s a pleasure to be here.
W: Perhaps you could start by telling us where the idea for the book came from?
M: 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 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 it wasn’t the fastest. He wondered what it was.
W: So I suppose he went to the nearest library to look for the information and he couldn’t find it?
M: Yeah, that’s exactly what happened. And this made Sir Hugh think there must be other people in the same situation who wanted this kind of information. He thought that, like himself, people would be interested in finding facts about the records to satisfy their curiosity. W: So the idea for a book of records was born. And when did the first book come out?
M: A few years later, in 1955. So to answer your first question: the tallest person in the world is 231.7cm tall. And the oldest person is Jeanne ? L ? Calment who was born in February, 1875.
W: There’re also some rather strange records on their torments（？）. M: Yeah, that’s right. Did you know, Sue, that the shortest time that taking…?
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