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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.