Sports and Sexes
In sports the sexes are separate.【C1】______and men do not run or swim in the same races.Women are less strong than men.That【C2】______is【C3】______people say.Women are【C4】______’the weaker sex’，or if men want to please them，’the fair sex’.But boys and girls are taught【C5】______schools and universities.There are women【C6】______are famous prime ministers，scientists and writers.And women live longer than men.【C7】______European woman can expect【C8】______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 in【C9】______4minutes.The best women need 5minutes.Women’s times are always slower than【C10】______，but some facts are a surprise.Some of the【C11】______women swimmers today are girls.One of them swam 400metres【C12】______4minutes and 21.2seconds when she was only 16.The first ’Tartan’in films was【C13】______Olympic swimmer，Jonny Weissmuller.His fastest 400metres was 4minutes and 59.1seconds，【C14】______is 37.9seconds【C15】______than a girl 50years later!This does not mean that women are【C16】______men【C17】______.Conditions are very different now，and sport is much【C18】______serious.It is【C19】______serious that some women are given hormone injections.At the Olympics a doctor has to check【C20】______the women are really women or not.It seems like that sport has many problems.Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes.

【C1】（）

A．woman
B．womans
C．women
D．females