题目内容：

One day, a woman from The Express News called. She said she wanted to work on a(n)         on me. When she had finished       me for the article, she asked, “What are you planning to do next?”

Well, at that         , there was actually nothing I was planning on doing next, and what  _59  out for us was, “I’m thinking about           the Guinness Book of World Records for Fastest-Talking Female.”

The newspaper article came out the next day, and the writer had             my final remarks(评论)about trying to break the World’s Fastest-Talking Female record. At about 5:00 that afternoon, I got a            from Larry King, asking me to go on the          . They would           me up at 8:00 — because they wanted me to do it that night!

I          the phone for a while, and then I called Guinness to find out           to break a fast-talking record. They told me I would have to recite something. I began            . I was both           and excited at the same time.

At 8:00, the car came. I practised the whole way there, and by the time I reached the  __       _ . I was tongue-tied. I asked the woman in charge, “What          I don’t break the record?”

“Larry doesn’t           if you break it or not,” she said. ” “He just cares that you try it on his show.” So I asked myself, “What’s the           that can happen? I’ll look like a fool on television!” A           thing, I told myself,           I could live through that. And what if I break the record?

So I decided just to give it my best shot, and I did. I broke the record, becoming the World’s Fastest-Talking Female          speaking 585 words in one minute!

1.A. articleB.experimentC. researchD. study

2.A. studyingB.interviewingC. callingD. praising

3.A. dayB. universityC. timeD. century

4.A. providedB. gaveC. tookD. came

5.A. settingB. breakingC. playingD. holding

6.A. setB. madeC. spokeD. included

7.A. timeB. chanceC. callD. notice

8.A. showB. stageC. movieD. book

9.A. bringB. pickC. callD. drive

10.A. thought ofB. stared atC.went throughD. heard of

11.A. whatB. whetherC. whenD. how

12.A. practicingB. singingC. learningD. reading

13.A. horribleB. tiredC. nervousD. happy

14.A. studio(演播室)B. theatreC. labD. office

15.A. unlessB. ifC. thoughD. how

16.A. wonderB. considerC. careD. know

17.A. bestB. mostC. leastD. worst

18.A. smallB. niceC. terribleD. big

19.A. readingB. carryingC. thinkingD. going

20.A. inB. onC. withD. by