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I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only common people of the world could meet each other at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.
Nearly all sports practiced today are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. Even a leisurely game like cricket, demanding grace rather than strength, can cause much ill will as we saw in the controversy over body-line bowling and over the rough tactics of the Australian team that visited England in 1921. Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners, is far worse.
Worst of all is boxing. One of the most horrible sights in the world is a fight between white and colored boxers before a mixed audience. But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behavior of the women, in particular, is such that the Army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests. At any rate, two or three years ago, when Home Guards and regular troops were holding a boxing tournament, I was placed on guard at the door of the hall, with orders to keep the women out.
The passage and its title indicate that the author consider war to be ________.
根据第一段可知，“...if only common people of the world could meet each other at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield”，作者认为如果世界上普通人之间都能进行运动比赛 的话，就不会想参加战争了，可见运动是战争的替代品。
In paragraph one, the author is amazed by ________.
根据第一段可知，“I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations”，作者对于“运动能增进国家之间的好感”这种观点表示诧异。
In the second paragraph, the writer suggests that ________.
根据第二段对于板球和足球的描写对比可知，作者认为足球比赛更激烈，竞争性更强。
Which of the following is most strongly suggested in the third paragraph as being the reason for not allowing women into Army boxing matches?
根据第三段中间部分可知，“But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behavior of the women, in particular, is such that the Army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behavior of the women, in particular, is such that the Army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests”，作者认为拳击比赛里观众的行为是令人讨厌的，而女性观众的行为尤 甚，因此她们不被允许观看拳击比赛。