The fastest men can run a mile in under four minutes. The best women need four and a half minutes. Womens times are always slower than mens, but some facts are a surprise. Some of the fastest women swimmers today are teenage girls. This does not mean that women are catching up with men. Conditions are very different now, and sports have become 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 sports have such problems. Life can be very complicated when there are two separate sexes! .
Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. Why are women called the weaker sex?
30. According to the passage, what do men mean when they call women the fair sex ?
31. Who are the fastest women swimmers?
32. What does the author really think of the Olympics?
Passage Three
In the history of the human race, the use of prisons as punishment for crimes is of fairly recent origin. A long time ago, prisons were merely places of preliminary detention. People were locked up in them to wait for torture, death, or other cruel punishment. In the late Middle Ages, the people of Europe became angry about the cruelties of that system and protested. Therefore, less cruel techniques of punishment were used. For example, people were sent away from their country and were never allowed to come back, or they were kept in prison.
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