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3. Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question

The most important championship in international football competition for women is the

Women’s World Cup. Organized by FIFA, its first tournament was held in 1991, sixty-one years

after the first one for men.

Although established not long ago, the Women’s World Cup is growing in popularity. Its first

championship was hosted in China with 12 teams sent to represent their countries. Eighty years

later, over 650,000 spectators attended the finals, and nearly a billion viewers from 70 countries

watched them on TV. And by the fourth tournament in 2003, the number of finalists had increased

to 16. As FIFA estimates, the current 40 million girls and women playing football around the world

will equal the number of men by 2010.

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2007 was decided to be held in China. Originally, China

was hosted the 2003 Women’s World Cup, but due to the outbreak of SARS in that country, the

event was moved to the United States. Having hosted the 1999 version of the World Cup, it was

thought to be the only nation that could organize the tournament in such a short time.