Задание

You are going to read a text about people who achieved unusual things. Match the headings to the paragraphs. One heading does not match.

There are a lot of people who went into the record books with their strange talents. Let’s read about some of them.

1) Bored children could learn a lot from Takuo Toda who made a 10 cm paper aeroplane which flew for 26.1 seconds in Tokyo in December 2009. Takuo folded the plane from a single sheet of paper, using the traditional Japanese art of origami.

2) Who says table tennis is just for kids? Australian table tennis player Dorothy De Law holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s oldest athlete. She took up the game at the age of 50 and she was still playing competitively in 2010 when she attended the World veterans’ Championship in China – at the age of 100!

3) Could you do a Rubik's Cube in 11.97 seconds? American Chris Dzoan did it in January 2010, but the world record is 4.904 seconds. Maybe Dzoan isn’t the world’s fastest problem solver, but he has another talent; he broke the record for completing the cube with one hand.

4) A German, Achim Arteеz, is a man who knows where he is going – but he can’t see where he’s going. Artez runs marathons backwards and in November 2009 he ran a half-marathon in Essen in 1 hour, 40 minutes and 29 seconds, a world record.

5) Suresh Joachim from Sri Lanka achieved a record in May 1997. He spent 76 hours and 40 minutes standing with just one foot on the floor. And he didn’t fall over once!

6) Englishman Ked Edwards ate 36 cockroaches in one minute on a British TV show in March 2001. The programme which showed his strange meal was a morning show called… The Big Breakfast!

7) What do you think is a long swim? 5,000 metres? Slovenian Martin Strel swam a thousand times as far as that in 2007. He was the first person to swim all 5,268 km of the world’s most dangerous river, the Amazon, in 66 days. It was full of deadly crocodiles and piranhas, but Strel is a man who loves taking risks!

8) In April 2008, in Belgium, Jef Van Dijck wore 227 T-shirts at the same time. He wanted to see how many he could put on at once. By 227th T-shirt, you could hardly see his face!