题目内容
In sports 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 what people say. Women are 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 under 4 minutes. The best women need 4.5 minutes .Women’s times are always slower than men’s ,but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenager girls. One of them swam 400 meters in 4 minutes 21.2 seconds when she was only 16. The first “Tarzan” in films was an Olympic swimmer ,Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 meters was 4 minutes 59.1 seconds, which is 37.9 seconds slower than a girl 50 years later ! This does not mean that women are catching men up .Conditions are very different now ,and sport is much more serious .It is so serious that some women athletes are given hormone injections. At the Olympics a doctor has to check whether the women athletes are really women or not. It seems sad that sport has such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes!
56.Which of the following is true?
A.Famous Prime Ministers are women.
B.Women do not run or swim in races with men.
C.Boys and girls study separately everywhere.
D.Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe.
57.The underlined sentence “That at least is what people say” means people .
A.say this but may not think so B.don’t say this much
C.say other things too D.only think this
58.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 or swim in the same races.
D.It is difficult to check whether women athletes are really women.
59.In this passage the author implies that .
A.men are not always stronger and faster than women
B.women are slower than men ,but stronger
C.men are faster and stronger than women
D.women are weaker than men ,but faster
Most people watching Jeremy Lin these past two months saw Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks star; but I, watching him, saw someone else. That was my elder brother, Bob, who is athletic and energetic. He could never sit still when he was in second grade; he had to get up every now and then and run around the room. And sure enough, he grew up to be a starting player for an N.C.A.A. championship lacrosse(长曲棍球)team. He was a Nike-endorsed marathoner, too, and reached the top of Mt. Everest, unguided, in his 50s.
And yet my family never watched his lacrosse games. We did watch some of his marathons, but that wasn’t until he was in his 20s. When Bob was in his glory days, our Shanghainese-born parents were bent on getting him into medical school. There was a loving aspect to it: I can remember my father working through math books with him, lesson by lesson, at the big blackboard in the attic. Bob never did become a doctor, though; and neither did I. It wasn’t until my younger sister came along that someone in the family finally wore a white coat.
Bob today could be the fittest 58-year-old on the planet. His doctor estimates his biological age at 35; he’s still climbing big mountains in the Himalayas. And, like Jeremy Lin, he’s charming. No one sees Bob without leaving with a laugh. He sometimes jokes he could be mayor of his building, and it’s true. To know him is to cheer for him.
And yet my parents did not cheer for him. What if my mother had sat on the sidelines with her statistics, like Jeremy Lin’s mother? What if my father had played videos of athletes for my brother to watch and imitate? It’s hard not to wonder.
And how did Jeremy Lin’s parents manage to do these remarkable things? Amy Chua, the tiger mother, recalls her immigrant father beating the kids whenever they mispronounced a Chinese word. How is it that Jeremy Lin’s immigrant father in particular, Gie-Ming Lin, encouraged his son to follow such an untraditional path?
【小题1】Bob’s glory days were those ________.
| A.when he was doing well in math |
| B.when he was in second grade |
| C.when he was made mayor of his building |
| D.when he showed his talents in sports |
| A.active and optimistic |
| B.clever and determined |
| C.brave and helpful |
| D.considerate and independent |
| A.Bob was always ignored by his parents |
| B.Bob could also have been a sport star. |
| C.Bob’s parents often watched his games. |
| D.Nobody in the author’s family was a doctor. |
| A.parents should always study together with their children |
| B.parents should know how to educate their children properly |
| C.children should be punished when they do anything wrong |
| D.children should try to live up to the hopes of their parents |