Passage 1 In sport the sexes are separate. (76) Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That at least is what people say. Women arc called" the weaker sex" ,or, if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught together at schools and universities. There are women who are famous Prime Ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. A European woman can expect to live until the age of 74, a man only until he is 68.Are women’s bodies really weaker The fastest men can run a mile in 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes. Women’s speeds are always slower than men’s, but some facts are surprising. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16.The first "Tarzan" in films was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is much more serious. It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone(荷尔蒙) injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problem. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes! What problems does sport have
A. Some women athletes are actually men.
B. Some women athletes are given hormone injections.
C. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races.
D. It is difficult to check whether women athletes are really women.
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It was a beautiful summer day and I was taking a walk in the downtown area of Madrid. When I turned a street (56) I heard the voice of a lovely Spanish singer (57) from a nearby cafe. The music (58) me, so I went to the cafe to hear it (59) I sat down at a table near the door. The waiter came over, and I (60) a glass of wine. While (61) my wine, I listened to the soft music.The (62) was a young lady, a little too fat, but (63) pretty. A black young man was playing the piano. The waiter returned (64) the glass of wine and put it on the (65) . I started drinking the wine slowly and (66) the other people in the cafe. They were ail men (67) women seldom go into the cafes in Spain. There were three men (68) at a table near mine. I could (69) by their accents that one of them was an American, one an Englishman and the third man a (70) . The waiter served each of the three men a glass of beer. By chance, each glass had a (71) in it. The American picked up his glass, noticed the fly and poured the beer and the fly was thrown onto the floor. The English man looked into his glass, noticed the fly and (72) a spoon, with which he took the fly out of the beer, and drank the (73) of it. The stranger noticed the fly in the beer, (74) . He picked it up with his fingers, squeezed it carefully in order to save every drop of beer, then drank the beer (75) .
A. all right
B. good
C. better
D. nice
It was a beautiful summer day and I was taking a walk in the downtown area of Madrid. When I turned a street (56) I heard the voice of a lovely Spanish singer (57) from a nearby cafe. The music (58) me, so I went to the cafe to hear it (59) I sat down at a table near the door. The waiter came over, and I (60) a glass of wine. While (61) my wine, I listened to the soft music.The (62) was a young lady, a little too fat, but (63) pretty. A black young man was playing the piano. The waiter returned (64) the glass of wine and put it on the (65) . I started drinking the wine slowly and (66) the other people in the cafe. They were ail men (67) women seldom go into the cafes in Spain. There were three men (68) at a table near mine. I could (69) by their accents that one of them was an American, one an Englishman and the third man a (70) . The waiter served each of the three men a glass of beer. By chance, each glass had a (71) in it. The American picked up his glass, noticed the fly and poured the beer and the fly was thrown onto the floor. The English man looked into his glass, noticed the fly and (72) a spoon, with which he took the fly out of the beer, and drank the (73) of it. The stranger noticed the fly in the beer, (74) . He picked it up with his fingers, squeezed it carefully in order to save every drop of beer, then drank the beer (75) .
A. reached for
B. reach
C. asked
D. want
We all enjoy extra income to spend on things like books, sports or hobbles. (Passage 2)