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、contrive
B、convince
C、convert
D、convict

答案B

解析 此题属于语意搭配题。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 B convince正确。选项A contrive表示“图谋,设法”,如:contrive a way of escaping;选项 C convert表示“使改变(形式、形状等)”,常与介词into/to/for等连用;选项D convict表示“判某人有罪”,如:The criminal was convicted o
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