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、attribute
B、distribute
C、devote
D、attach

答案C

解析 此题属于语意搭配题。devote(to)表示"奉献,把…专用于",如:They devote each Saturday to the care of homeless people.原句意为:在美国,重点大学每年在体育运动上要投入数百万美元,故选项devote正确。其他选项均可与to连用,但意思不符:attribute(to)表示"归因于";distribute表不"分配";attach(to)主要表示"加于…之上",如:No blame attaches to him for the accident.全句可译为:几乎所有的重点大学都开设橄榄球、棒球、篮球与曲棍球课程,每年在体育运动上要投入数百万美元。
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