高三北师大版英语一轮复习选修七Unit21HumanBiology题组快练作业21.doc

题组层级快练(二十一)
(第一次作业)
Ⅰ. 阅读理解
(2021届厦门市高三一模)
By the 1970s, the Olympic Marathon had come a long way from the dusty roads of Athens. Yet women were still not allowed to compete and the struggle to establish a women’s Olympic Marathon was itself something of a long－distance race.
Women had been excluded from long－distance running until 1928, when the typical long race was the 800 meters. The women competitors hadn’t properly prepared for the race and several fell down and became temporarily unconscious due to extreme tiredness. This led Olympic organizers in 1928 to consider the marathon too violent for women.
This is not to say there was no tradition of women’s long－distance running. Women had been prohibited from participating in the ancient Olympics. But women in ancient Greece held their own sports festival every five years. Only one athletic event was held—a running race.
When the Olympics were revived in 1896, women were again excluded. However, in 1967, women’s ability in running attracted great attention. Number 261 in the Boston Marathon was given to Kathrine Switzer. Not until two miles into the race did officials realize that Switzer was a woman. Race officials tried to catch Switzer and remove her from the race but her teammates fended them off with body blocks. And Switzer wasn’t scared by officials’ aggressive actions. She kept running. Although the running was demanding, Switzer didn’t give up and eventually finished the race. Switzer
’s story had made the quest for equality in long－distance running for women a political issue. Slowly, the rules did begin to change.
The first women’s marathon was officially agreed by the IAAF in 1979. IAAF president Adriaan Paulen watched the race. He was so impressed by the level of the competition that he announced that he would fully support the effort to establish a women’s marathon in the Olympics. Soon the IAAF recommended to the IOC that a women’s marathon be included in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los A