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There are those who point with alarm at Americans’ relative lack of interest in the world’s most popular games, soccer, a sport

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问题      There are those who point with alarm at Americans’ relative lack of interest in the world’s most popular games, soccer, a sport many feel has important advantages over football and baseball. Football and baseball of their very nature prevent mass participation; their popularity must therefore bear some of the responsibility for turning America into a nation of spectators. The violence of football makes necessary specialized conditioning and elaborate equipment if injury is to be avoided; even so there are crippling accidents and deaths each year. Baseball (hardball, that is) is so difficult that few can participate; throwing a ball demands special talents and training, while hitting is also difficult that a game with unskillful players is hardly worth the bother. Soccer, on the other hand, is a game anyone can play and enjoy.
     Since soccer’s superiority in encouraging active participation is so obvious, and since soccer’s ability to arouse intense feeling of identification among spectators is at least equal to football’s, why has it failed to become a major sport on the professional and college level? Soccer’s worldwide popularity may be just what is keeping it from becoming popular. Baseball is also an international sport, played in Canada, Latin America, Japan, Korea and, in a minor way, Europe.  There are professional leagues in the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Japan, but about all this the American public neither knows nor cares.  Spectators here are interested only when American teams play other American teams. The major league baseball teams from Toronto and Montreal hardly destroy this generalization.
Many think soccer has important advantages over football and baseball because ______
选项 A、more people can participate
B、it is an international sport
C、it needs special training
D、violence is involved in playing the game
答案A
解析 第2段提到尽管北方不如南方那样令人惊奇地需要重建，但毕竟也必须重建。可见南方更为严重。文中均可找到与B，C和D相反的意思。因此都不是答案。
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