College sports in the United States are a huge deal. Almost all major American universities have football, baseball, basketball

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问题     College sports in the United States are a huge deal. Almost all major American universities have football, baseball, basketball and hockey programs, and (1)_____ millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions (2)_____ as well, in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit (3)_____ from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name universities (4)_____ each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly (5)_____ crowds of over 90,000. Basketball’s national collegiate championship game is a TV (6)_____ on a par with any other sporting event in the United States, (7)_____ perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time during fall or winter one can (8)_____ one’s TV set and see the top athletic programs—from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford— (9)_____ in front of packed houses and national TV audiences.
    The athletes themselves are (10)_____ and provided with sch61arships. College coaches identify (11)_____ teenagers and then go into high schools to (12)_____ the country’s best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about (13)_____ coaches can recruit—no recruiting calls after 9 p. m., only one official visit to a campus—but they are often bent and sometimes (14)_____. Top college football programs (15)_____ scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive (16)_____ campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc.
    In return, the players (17)_____ the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges (18)_____ two hours a day, four days a week from January to April. In summer, it’s back to strength and agility training four days a week until mid-August, when camp (19)_____ and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins (20)_____ During the season, practices last two or three hours a day from Tuesday to Friday. Saturday is game day. Mondays are an officially mandated day of rest.


选项 A、contrive
B、convince
C、convert
D、convict

答案B

解析 此题属于形近词辨析题。convince sb. to do/of sth.表示"劝服某人",根据句意:教练们先是确认有发展前途的高中生后,就会到其所在学校说服这些全国最优秀的运动员,故选项convince正确。选项contrive表示"图谋,设法",如:contrive a way of escaping;选项convert表示:使改变(形式、形状等),常与介词into/to/for等连用;选项convict声示"判某人有罪",如:The criminal was convicted of murder.全句可译为:大学的教练们确认了有发展前途的高中生后,就会到其所在高中说服这些全国最优秀的运动员上他们所在的大学。
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