单选题
Sports and Sexes

In sports the sexes are separate. (36) and men do not run or swim in the same races. Women are less strong than men. That (37) is (38) people say. Women are (39) "the weaker sex", or if men want to please them, "the fair sex". But boys and girls are taught (40) schools and universities. There are women (41) are famous prime ministers, scientists and writers. And women live longer than men. (42) European woman can expect (43) 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 (44) 4 minutes. The best women need 5 minutes. Women's times are always slower than (45) , but some facts are a surprise. Some of the (46) women swimmers today are girls. One of them swam 400 metres (47) 4 minutes and 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first "Tartan" in films was (48) Olympic swimmer, Jonny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes and 59.1 seconds, (49) is 37.9 seconds (50) than a girl 50 years later! This does not mean that women are (51) men (52) . Conditions are very different now, and sport is much (53) serious. It is (54) serious that some women are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check (55) the women are really women or not. It seems like that sport has many problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes.

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词woman的复数形式,即为women,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 短语辨析。at least意为“至少”,所以答案为A。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查名词性从句,what在从句中作宾语,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查被动语态be done,所以答案为B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查介词用法,在学校是at school,所以答案为D。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查定语从句的用法,who指代作主语的人,所以答案为A。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查不定冠词的使用。名词以辅音[j]开头,所以答案为A。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查固定搭配expect to do,所以答案为B。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查介词用法。句意为“不到4分钟时间”,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] man的复数名词的所有格形式为"men's",所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 因前有定冠词修饰,应为最高级,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查介词用法。in…意为“在……时间之内”,所以答案为A。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 不定冠词a/an的用法。Olympic以元音开头,要用an,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 非限定性定语从句的构成。先行词为物,且在从句中作主语,所以答案为D。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查形容词比较级用法。根据句意应是男生比女生慢,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查现在进行时的用法。这里应用be doing形式,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查固定搭配。catch up意为“追上,赶上”,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查形容词比较级用法。根据句意应用more,所以答案为C。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查短语so…that…,所以答案为B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] whether…or not是固定搭配,所以答案为D。[知识拓展] whether与订作“是否”讲时,前者比后者的使用面更广,也更正式。比如,whether可引导主语从句、表语从句、可跟不定式、可跟or not等,而if均不可。