专题19-奇闻轶事-备战2023年中考英语之阅读理解专项练（常考+热门话题）（通用版）

专题19-奇闻轶事 备战2023年中考英语之阅读理解专项练（常考+热门话题） 一、阅读单选 （2022·湖北·武汉外国语学校（武汉实验外国语学校）模拟预测） Stacked chairs reach new heights     A restaurant manager, has broken the Guinness World Record (吉尼斯纪录) for chair stacking (使成叠) in Canada. In April of 2021, Jay Ehsan carefully stacked chairs on top of each other to a height of 5.2 meters. The stacking took 45 minutes. Not only did he break the record but his efforts also raised more than $1,500 to help homeless people. ________     During a beach walk on the Grand Beach, Canada, Andrew Eaton saw a glass bottle. His first thought was to recycle it, but then he saw a note inside. It was written in French and dated January 26, 2021. Andre Huet, from Scotland, had written it and the bottle had carried it about 2,200 miles across the Atlantic. He may be surprised to find that his bottle would be picked up by someone one year later. A couple float their dream house     A couple from Toronto, Canada, saw their dream house right on the beach. They bought it an