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It’ s not difficult to understand our desire for athletes to be heroes. On the surface, at least, athletes display a vital and i
It’ s not difficult to understand our desire for athletes to be heroes. On the surface, at least, athletes display a vital and i
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2018-04-27
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It’ s not difficult to understand our desire for athletes to be heroes. On the surface, at least, athletes display a vital and indomitable spirit; they are gloriously alive【B1】______their bodies. And sports do allow us to【B2】______acts that can legitimately be described as【B3】______, thrilling, beautiful, even noble. In a (n)【B4】______complicated and disorderly world, sports are still an arena in which we can regularly witness a certain kind of【B5】______.
Yet there’ s something of a【B6】______here, for the very qualities a society【B7】______to seek in its heroes— selflessness, 【B8】______consciousness, and the like—are precisely the【B9】______of those which are needed to【B10】______a talented but otherwise unremarkable neighborhood kid into a Michael Jordan. To become a star athlete, you have to have an extremely competitive【B11】______and you have to be totally focused on the development of your own physical skills. These qualities【B12】______well make a great athlete,【B13】______they don’t necessarily make a great person.
On top of this, our society reinforces these【B14】______by the system it has created to produce athletes a system characterized by【B15】______responsibility and enormous privilege.
The athletes themselves suffer the【B16】______of this system. Trained to measure themselves perpetually 【B17】______the achievements of those around them, many young athletes develop a sense of sociologist Walter Schafer has【B18】______ "conditional self-worth". They learn very quickly that they will be accepted by the important figures in their lives—parents, coaches and peers as long as they are【B19】______as "winner".
Unfortunately they become【B20】______and behave as if their athletic success will last forever.
【B16】
选项
A、amends
B、surpluses
C、bonuses
D、costs
答案
D
解析
考查名词辨析。意为“运动员自身忍受着这个体制的______”。D.costs意为“成本,代价;(金钱、时间的)花费;(生命、健康等的)失去”,符合句意,为正确答案。amends意为“赔偿”;surpluses意为“剩余”;bonuses意为“奖金”,均不符合题意。
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考研英语一
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