2、       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

1、A strong wind was blowing hard ,thunder was rumbling(雷聲隆隆地響),and lightning flashed across the dark sky. Rain was  36   down; it looked as if heaven had been broken open.

       Gleams of light appeared from windows of   37  houses ,shining like jewels in all the dark.

       A  38  woman dressed in rags and trembling with cold was  39  on a lonely road, while the merciless rain was  40  against her without pause.

       She knocked at a door, and a boy answered it. She  41  him to let her stay a while  42  .

       The boy then let her into the sitting room and  43  her sitting by the fire.

       The woman  44  old and tired under the bright electric light,  45  she was only in her early thirties. She sat  46  for a moment ,and then her eyes began to look about the room. When her wandering eyes  47  on the picture of a young man, she  48   up, looking thunderstruck.

       Just then ,the boy came with his  49  .The man at once  50  the woman as his wife .They had   51  touch with each other during the war ,and he thought he had lost her forever.

         52  words needed to be spoken. They ran into each other’s arms  53  the boy stared at them ,puzzled.

       The storm was over and the sky cleared up. Feeling very  54  , the couple stood face to face with their child between them, watching the rain as it gradually  55  .

30、--Look, these boys are playing like crazy in the street, all wet through.

--Yeah, they don’t seem to         the heat, the darkness, or the passing cars.

       A．see                     B．sense                  C．feel                     D．notice

29、--Dad, my birthday is coming.

--Oh, you        have a new MP4 for your birthday, Kathy.

--Thank you, Dad.

       A．ought to              B．can                     C．shall                    D．must

28、---What do you think of her speech last night?

---Just so so. She gave us too much information, so that everyone got          .

       A．confused             B．to confuse           C．confusing            D．to be confused

27、Considering the coming of the entrance exam, some schools have abandoned the      of doing morning exercises.

       A．a(chǎn)ction                 B．practice               C．habit                   D．custom

26、The more efforts you make to learn English, the more progress you         .

       A．make                  B．have made           C．will make            D．made

25、The girl has been an independent one since her childhood, so she seldom, if      , turns to her brother for help.

       A．never                  B．once                   C．ever                    D．a(chǎn)lways

24、---Do you know that scientist?

---You mean         making a speech in the lecture hall?

       A．one                     B．who                    C．he                       D．the one