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The triathlon is a recent sport. It is demanding and difficult because it is three sports in one. It includes a 2.4-mile
swim, a 112-mile bike race, and a 26.2-mile marathon. The top tri-athletes finish all three events in about eight hours.
Many say that it is a true test of an athlete’s body and mind. It really takes a lot of strength and willpower to compete.
Triathlons began in California in the early 1970s. There, some athletes started the three-sport race because they
wanted to make their training exciting. One of these athletes moved to Hawaii and took the sport with him. In 1978,
competitors held the first professional triathlon race in Hawaii. It was called the Ironman World Championship. In
1982, this race became famous because of the televised performance of Julie Moss. She was twenty-three years old,
and it was her first competition. Exhausted, she was running toward the finish line. Suddenly, three meters before the
line, she fell down. She tried to get up, but she kept falling. She finally crawled across the finish line. Television
cameras showed the world her dramatic struggle. This was the start of the Ironman’s popularity. Even though Julie
Moss lost that year, she tried again. Finally, in 1985, she won Ironman Japan.
38 What is this passage mainly about?
The tri-athlete Julie Moss. Swimming and bicycling.
The development of the triathlon. The Ironman World Championship.
39 Which of the following sports is NOT included in the triathlon?
Bicycling. Running. Swimming. Weightlifting.
40 Which of the following statements about the triathlon is true?
The sport that has the longest distance in the triathlon is running.
Some athletes started this sport to make their training exciting.
The first Ironman World Championship was held in California.
An athlete in Hawaii started this three-sport race in the early 1970s.
41 When did the triathlon start to become a popular sport?
In the early 1970s. In 1978. In 1982. In 1985.
42 Which of the following statements about Julie Moss is true?
She won the Ironman race the first time she attended it.
She won the Ironman World Championship in 1982.
She brought the three-sport race to Hawaii in 1978.
She was the winner of Ironman Japan in 1985.
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A stereo type is a thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things,
but that belief may or may not accurately reflect reality. The term stereotype 46 the Greek word stereos, “firm,
solid,” and typos, “impression,” hence “solid impression.”
The term comes from the printing trade and was first 47 in 1798 by Firmin Didot to describe a printing plate
that duplicated any typography. The duplicate printing plate, or the stereotype, is used for printing instead of the 48 .
The first 49 to “stereotype” in its modern use in English, outside of printing, was found in 1850, meaning
“image perpetuated without change.” But it was not until 1922 that “stereotype” was first used in the modern
psychological sense by American journalist Walter Lippmann in his work Public Opinion. Today, the word is widely
used within and 50 different psychology disciplines, and there are different concepts and theories of stereotyping
that provide their own expanded definition of the word.
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