Basketball stars are usually tall
．
The stars of other sports are sometimes short
．
Some
of the best football players are not very tall
．
Short people often have better balance
（平衡）
than tall people
，
so they do not fall
over very often
．
In some sports the players must have good balance
，
for example
，
table tennis and running
．
You do not need long legs to run fast
！
Some of the fastest
runners in the world are not very tall
．
Some people are tall and some people are
short
．
There is no medicine to make people grow taller or to make people shorter
．
The tallest woman in the world is Sandy Allen
．
She is 2.31 metres tall and lives in the
United States
．
The shortest person in the world is Gul Mohammed from India
．
He is
only 57 centimetres
（厘米）
tall
．
Today young people in many countries grow taller
than their parents
．
This is because they eat better food today
．
Good food can help
children grow
．
根据短文内容，回答下面问题。
1
．
How many different sports do we talk about in this passage
？
What are they
？
__________________________________
2
．
Is there any medicine to make people grow taller or to make people shorter
？
_______________
3
．
Who is the tallest woman in the world and how tall is she
？
_______________________
4
．
How tall is Gul Mohammed
？
___________________________
5
．
Why are some young people taller than their parents today
？
___________________
four defference sports, basketball, football, tabletennis, running
No, There is no medicine to make people grow taller or to make people shorter
The tallest woman in the world is Sandy Allen she is 2.31 metres tall
Gul Mohammed is only 57 centimetres
This is because they eat better food today