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 【21】______  millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions 【22】______  as well. in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit 【23】______  from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name universities 【24】______  each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly 【25】______  crowds of over 90,000. Basketball’s national collegiate championship game is a TV 【26】______  on a par with (与…相同或相似) any other sporting event in the United States, 【27】______  perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time during fall or winter one can 【28】______  one’s TV set and see the top athletic programs—from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford — 【29】______  29in front of packed houses and national TV audiences.
   The athletes themselves are 【30】______  and provided with scholarships. College coaches identify 【31】______  teenagers and then go into high schools to 【32】______  the country’s best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about 【33】______  coaches can recruit—no recruiting calls after 9 p. m., only one official visit to a campus—hut they are often bent and sometimes 【34】______ . Top college football programs 【35】______  scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive 【36】______  campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc.
   In return, the players 【37】______  the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges 【38】______  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 【39】______  and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins 【40】______ . 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.
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选项 A、offer
B、afford
C、award
D、reward

答案A

解析 此题属于语意搭配题。offer表示“提供”,根据上文:中学生被招进大学时都享受奖学金,本句主语是football programs,因此与之相对应的谓语应是选项A offer。选项B afford表示“(能)负担得起”;选项C award表示“颁奖章”;选项D reward表示“报酬”。
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