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Question

Playing basketball isn’t a sport for women．That’s what Jewell Chapman’s high school headmaster told her in 1961 when he forbade the girls to play basketball．“We were very sad，”said Chapman，a player for her high school team of Des Moines．

Nearly 50 years later，Chapman is back on the basketball playground．She is 62 years old and plays for the Hot Pink Grannies，joining about 10 other women on a team whose uniforms are black trousers and hot pink socks．They play in the Iowa Granny Basketball League．

It is one of the twelve of basketball leagues for women over 50 that have spread up across the country．For some it’s an opportunity to exercise and socialize；for others，it’s a once-refused chance to compete．“You see more and more senior women’s teams taking part in state and national competitions，”said Michael Rogers，a professor in sports studies at Wichita State University．“In the future it will be a common thing to have leagues like this．”

Yearly researches by the National Sporting Goods Association show the number of women of 55 and older who play basketball at least 50 times a year has grown from 16，000 in 1995 to nearly 131 000 ten years later．

The women on the Hot Pink Grannies are good-natured but they are competitive when game time comes．“I think I’m tough，”says Hot Pink Granny Colleen Pulliam 69 showing her biceps（二头肌）in a game against the Strutters known for their bright yellow socks．

Granny Basketball Leagues and similar groups are scattered（分布）through much of the country including California，Connecticut Louisiana，New Mexico，North Carolina，Pennsylvania and Washington D.C．

 

72．The underlined word “It”（in Paragraph 3）refers to         ．

A．the Iowa Granny Basketball League              B．the Hot Pink Grannies

C．the school team of Des Moines                    D．Chapman

73．Why does Colleen Pulliam show her biceps? She wants to prove that she is          ．

A．beautiful．           B．hard                    C．thin．                     D．strong

74．When game time comes，the women on the Hot Pink Grannies are         ．

A．good-natured        B．active                  C．friendly                  D．happy

75．This passage mainly tells us about         ．

A．American Granny Basketball Leagues

B．American women basketball teams

C．Chapman and her team

D．more old women’s joining basketball teams in America

Answer 1

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