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(73) In sport the sexes（性别）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 womens bodies really weaker? The fastest men can run a mile in under 4 minutes. The best women need 4．5 minutes. Womens time are always slower than mens, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. One of them swam 400 metres in 4 minutes 21．2 seconds when she was only 16．The first‘Tartan’in film was an Olympic swimmer, Johnny Weissmuller. His fastest 400 metres was 4 minutes 49．1 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 （荷尔蒙）injections（注射）. 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（复杂的） when there are two separate sexes! 1．Women are called the weaker sex because ______ . A．women do as much as men B．people think women are weaker than men C．sport is easier for men than for women D．in sport the two sexes are always together 2．Which of the following is true? A．Boys and girls study separately everywhere. B．Women do not run or swim in races with men. C． Famous Prime Ministers are women . D．Men can expect to live longer than women in Europe. 3．“That at least is what people say”means people ______ . A．say other things , too B．dont say this much C．say this but may not think so D．only think this 4．What problems does sp