高二英语Unit9知识精讲 人教版.docVIP

高二英语Unit9知识精讲 人教版 一. 本周教学内容： Unit 9 二. 重点、难点： I. Background . A The word Guinness used to be the name of a big family in Dublin , Ireland . The Guinness Book of Records is a reference book that covers all types of records about the world and its inhabitants . It is published in 36 languages every year throughout the world . It is divided into many categories such as the Earth and Space , the Human Being , Buildings and Structures , etc . It was Sir Hugh Beaver of Britain who first thought of compiling such a book in order to help solve the trivia questions among bar patrons , who liked to argue about ‘records and record - holders’ in the world . The first copy came out in 1955 in Britain and the first US edition came out one year later . A Chinese edition has been published . B Some of the Guinness World Records Oldest Woman Ever The oldest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived is 122 years and 164 days , by Jeanne - Louise Calment . She was born in France on February 21 , 1875 , and died at a nursing home in Arles , southern France on August 4 , 1997 . President Jacques Chirac once said Jean Calment was a little bit like a grandmother to everyone in France . She was 14 when the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 . She led an extremely active life , taking up fencing at 85 years old , and was still riding a bicycle at 100 . She portrayed herself at the age of 114 in the film Vincent And Me , to become the oldest actress in film . Most Expensive Player (Soccer) The highest transfer fee quoted for a player is a reported 13,033,000,000 Spanish pesetas (￡47 million) for France’s Zinedine from Juventus to Real Madrid on July 9th , 2001 . Longest Kiss Karmit Tzubera and Dror Orpaz were the eventual winners of a kissing contest held at Rabin Square , Tel - Aviv , Israel , after kissing for 30 hours 45 minutes , on April 5,1999 . So devoted were Dror and Karmit they didn’t take a single break during their passionate kissathon - not e