Exorcise
21st October 2007, 20:41
Women dont compete against men in sport because of medical misconceptions about their bodies, says Etlis Cashmore, a professor of sociology. He claims it's only in the past 300 years that anatomists have pointed out the differences between men's and women's bodies, apart from the most obvious ones. Before then, they were seen as fairly similar. By the late 19th century, closer examination led to anatomists looking for inferiorities in women's bodies and believing that even their organs had different functions to men's. Cashmore's argument is that despite women 's exclusion from most sports for the first half of this century, they have caught men up rather rapidly. Women' s best times in the marathon have improved by an avarage per year of 2 minutes 47 seconds while men' s have improved by a mere 66seconds.
1- It can be inferred from this passage that Cshmore believes that ........
a)modern medicine is based more on myth than on genuine scientific fact
b)sociologists are better qualified to discuss human anatomy than medical researchers
c)in the last three centuries, there have been significant changes in the anatomy of woman
d)it is quite obvious that women should not be allowed to participate in sport against them
e)there' no good reason why men and women shouldnt compete against each other in sport
2- The author quotes the times 2 minutes 47 seconds and 66 seconds to illustrate that .........
a)despite progress, women still take more than twice as long as men in marathons
b)women are actually superior to men in long distance running
c)the gap between men' s and women' s performances in sport is shrinking
d)his theory is scientific by including mathematical figures
e)women will one day surpass men in athletic endeavors
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1- It can be inferred from this passage that Cshmore believes that ........
a)modern medicine is based more on myth than on genuine scientific fact
b)sociologists are better qualified to discuss human anatomy than medical researchers
c)in the last three centuries, there have been significant changes in the anatomy of woman
d)it is quite obvious that women should not be allowed to participate in sport against them
e)there' no good reason why men and women shouldnt compete against each other in sport
2- The author quotes the times 2 minutes 47 seconds and 66 seconds to illustrate that .........
a)despite progress, women still take more than twice as long as men in marathons
b)women are actually superior to men in long distance running
c)the gap between men' s and women' s performances in sport is shrinking
d)his theory is scientific by including mathematical figures
e)women will one day surpass men in athletic endeavors
els
