单选题 Sports and Sexes
In sports the sexes are separate. (36) and men de 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 fairsex". 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, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 meters was 4 minutes and 59. I 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】[考点] 名词复数
[解析] 此题考查名词woman的复数形式，即为women，故选C。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点] 短语辨析
[解析] at least意为“至少”，故选A。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 宾语从句
[解析] 此题考查名词性从句，what在从句中做宾语，故选C。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[考点] 被动语态
[解析] 此题考查被动语态be done，故选B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点] 介词用法
[解析] 此题考查介词用法，在学校是at school，故选D。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点] 定语从句
[解析] 此题考察定语从句用法，who指代作主语的人，故选A。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点] 冠词用法
[解析] 此题考查不定冠词的使用，名词以辅音[j]开头，故选A。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[考点] 短语搭配
[解析] 此题考查固定搭配expect to do，故选B。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 介词用法
[解析] 此题考查介词用法，句意为“不到4分钟时间”，故选A。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 名词所有格
[解析] man的复数名词的所有格形式为“men’s”，故选C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 形容词最高级
[解析] 因前有定冠词修饰，应为最高级，故选C。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[考点] 介词用法
[解析] 此题考查介词用法，in...意为“在……时间之内”，故选A。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 不定冠词a/an的用法
[解析] Olympic以元音开头，要用an，故选C。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点] 非限定性定语从句
[解析] 先行词为物，且在从句中作主语，故选D。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 形容词比较级用法
[解析] 根据句意应是男生比女生慢，故选C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 现在进行时
[解析] 这里应用be doing形式，故选C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 固定搭配
[解析] catch up意为“追上，赶上”，故选C。
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[考点] 形容词比较级
[解析] 此题考查形容词比较级用法，根据句意应用more，故选C。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[考点] 固定短语
[解析] 此题考查短语so...that...，故选B。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[考点] 名词性从句
[解析] whether...or not是固定搭配，故选D。