单选题 The moral high ground has always been female territory. Men, after all, lie and cheat and rob and pollute the environment and disproportionately populate the prisons, while women do their best to appreciate their good qualities. Some women, at least.
But with the rise of feminism, the assaults on men's moral probity have become more frequent, and the belief in their arrogance and lack of concern for anything but their own selfish ends has become a truism. It's the men who are greedy. It's the men who are disloyal. It's the men who will do anything for money. It's the men who are immature.
In the world of sport, pouty male athletes are Whipping boys of talk radio. They have graced the cover of Sports Illustrate, and on the inside have been vilified for a litany d sins, among them greed, disdain for the fans who pay their exorbitant salaries, and a lack of respect for the game that the fans love and that has made them rich.
Female athletes, on the other hand, have been placed on a pedestal--but it has been a pretty easy one to climb. For one thing, there hasn' t been enough money to get greedy about. For another, there haven' t been any fans. And for third, those who didn't love the game had absolutely no reason to keep playing.
But thanks to the rise of women' s basketball, female basketball players are going to find themselves tempted by the same vanities that have seduced so many men- and though we know some will give in, we don' t know how many.
For women's basketball to become a major sport in America, as opposed to a profitable one like arena football, something is going to be offered other than just pure skill. That something should be, and if fact will have to be, a different attitude, a purer sense of sport, than the men deliver. It may be asking too much of women to withstand the temptations that have sucked male athletes into prima donna poses, but then again it may be true that women have occupied the high moral ground for so long because they actually are more sensitive to what's important in the long run.
I honestly don' t know how this drama will play out, but the process will tell us about more than just the fate of women' s basketball. If women, who are steadily gaining more and more control in this world, 'can truly respond in a more reasoned way to the pull of power, then there is hope for the 21st century. But if women, as a gender, can do no hatter than men when given the chance, then in basketball as in life, we can only look ahead to more of the same.

单选题 The moral high ground has always been female territory because______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节题。
题意为:“女人向来道德高尚,因为______。”据文章首段可知,男人撒谎,欺诈,盗窃,而女人尽可能保持她们的优秀品质,因此选项A为正确答案。选项B“男人害怕女人”;选项C男人不如女人优秀”;选项D“男人认为道德不重要”。
单选题 Female athletes keep playing in order to______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】细节题。
题意为:“女运动员继续参加某项运动是为了______。”请参看文章第三段末句:第三点,不热爱某项运动的女运动员,不论是篮球还是羽毛球,绝对没有理由继续下去。由此可知选项A“挣钱谋生”;选项B“成为名人”;选项C“打败男运动员”都不正确。故选项D为正确答案。
单选题 Women have occupied the high moral ground for so long because______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】细节题。
题意为:“女人长时间保持道德高尚是因为她们确实对最后什么重要更 ______。”根据倒数第二段末句,可知选项B“敏感”为正确答案。选项A“耸人听闻的”;选项C“聪明的”;选项D“睿智的”。
单选题 According to the article, does the author think that female athletes will withstand the temptations that have sucked male athletes into prima donna poses?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】作者态度题。
题意为:“根据本文,作者认为女运动员像男运动员一样成为众人瞩目的明星,能够抵御诱惑吗?”根据文章第五段说到的女子篮球联合会终于给女人机会展示她们的高尚道德以及后面作者提到确实有贪婪的女子,但是从整体上看女人的道德的确高尚一些。因此作者对女运动员抵御诱惑持肯定态度。因此选项A为正确答案。
单选题 There is hope for the 21st century, if______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节题。
题意为:“如果______,21世纪将会有希望。”请参看文章末段第二句:如果对这个世界逐渐获得更多控制权的女人,对权力的诱惑表现得更理智些,21世纪将会有希望。故选项C为正确答案。选项A“女人完全战胜男人”;选项丑41女人绝对地控制世界”;选项D“女人能担负起人类的命运”。