PROVA DE INGLÊS do PAS. 1ª ETAPA de 2012. Caderno Futebol.

Prova de Inglês do PAS da 1ª Etapa de 2012. Cad Futebol.

Women at the Olympic Games

    The road to equality for women at the Olympic Games has been long and difficult, and there is still a long way to go. Participation in the Ancient Olympic Games was limited to male athletes only. The only way women could participate was as owners of horses. There are records of several winning women horse owners. As the owner of the horse teams, the women were considered winners, but very probably they weren’t even present at the events.

    Even in the early years of the modern Olympics, women were not well represented. They participated for the first time at the 1900 Games with the inclusion of women's events in tennis and golf. Women's athletics and gymnastics started only at the 1928 Olympics. Over time more women's events were added. In 2012, women's boxing was introduced. Now, all sports are permitted for women!

        Equality in the opportunity to compete is one thing, but in many countries women still do not have equal rights to participate in sports and the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games. On July 12th, just two weeks before the beginning of the 2012 Olympic Games, Saudi Arabia announced that the country would send two women to compete judo and athletics for the first time in history. But Qatar and Brunei still prohibit women participation in the Games.

 Internet: <www.topendsports.com> (adapted).

Based on the article above, judge the following items.

    1 Nowadays, all countries send women athletes to the Olympic Games.

   2  Only men could participate in the Ancient Olympic Games.

   3  Women´s role in the Ancient Olympics was dependent on their ownership of horses.

   4  In the modern Olympic Games, one of the first sports which permitted women athletes was golf.

2016 Olympics – Rio de Janeiro

The city of Rio de Janeiro will organize the 31st Olympic

Games of the Modern Era. The choice was announced after three

rounds of voting by members of the International Olympic

Committee (IOC) on October 2nd, 2009 at the 121st IOC Meeting,

in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Seven cities were initially proposed by their National

Olympic Committees to host the 2016 Games: Chicago (USA),

Prague (CZE), Tokyo (JPN), Rio de Janeiro (BRA), Baku (AZE),

Doha (QAT) and Madrid (ESP). On June 4th 2008, the IOC

Executive Board selected four cities to enter the Candidate City

phase of the process. The cities were the following:

– Chicago (USA)

– Tokyo (JPN)

– Rio de Janeiro (BRA)

– Madrid (ESP)

Internet: <brandonmoller.com>.   

          During the vote on October 2nd, 2009, Rio de Janeiro triumphed by taking 66 votes compared to Madrid’s 32. This gave Rio the majority that it needed to be elected as the host city for the 2016 Games. Rio won a difficult competition because the other three candidates were very strong cities.

Internet: <www.olympic.org> (adapted).

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

5 The potential host cities were reduced to almost half of their

original number by the Executive Board of the International

Olympic Committee.

6 The only European candidate city received less than half the

votes that Rio obtained.

7 The other three candidate cities were poorly prepared to host

the Games.

8 It was the third attempt to bring the Olympic Games to

beautiful Rio de Janeiro.

9 The members of the IOC had to vote three times before Rio

was eventually selected.

 Internet: <www.google.com.br>.

10 The cartoon is considered funny because

       A.        there are only two people playing.

         B.        the players are wearing no shoes.

         C.         the ball is a piece of rock.

         D.        there is no net in the goal.

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