CHOOSE THE ITEM ( A, B, C OR D ) THAT BEST ANSWERS THE QUESTION ABOUT THE PASSAGE

Exercise 9 : Choose the item ( A, B, C or D ) that best answers the question about the passage.

In sport, the sexes are separate. Women and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are

less strong than men. That at least is why people say .Women ar 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 under 4 minutes. The best women need 4,5 minutes.

Women’s times are always slower than men’s, but some facts are surprised.Some of them swam 400 m in

4 minutes 21,2 seconds when she was only 16. The first “Tarzan” in film was an Olympic swimmer,

Johny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 m was 4 minutes 59,1 seconds, slower than a girl 50 years later !

Thuis does not mean that wpmen are catching men up. Conditions are very different now, and sport is

much more serious. It is so serious that some athletes are given hormone injections. At the Olympics, a

doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems to say that sport has

much problems. Life can be very completed when there are two separate sexes.

1. Women are called “the weaker sex” because ………..

A. women do as much as much. B. people think women are weaker than men.

C. sport is easier for men than for women. D. in sport, the two sexes are always together.

2. Which of the following is true ?

A. Boy and girls study separately. B. Women do not run in races with men.

C. Famous Prime Ministers are women. D. Men expect to live longer than women in Europe.

3. “That at least is why people say”, means people ………

A. say other things,too. B. don’t say this much

C. say this but may not think so D. only think this

4. 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 in the same race.

D. It is difficult to check whether women athletes are really women.

5. In this passage, the author implies that ………

A. women are weaker but faster than men. B. women are slower but stronger than men.

C. men are not always stronger and faster than women. D. men are faster and stronger than women.