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【C1】______millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions【C2】______as well, in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit【C3】______from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name universities【C4】______each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly【C5】______crowds of over 20, 000. Basketball’s national collegiate championship game is a TV【C6】______on a par with any other sporting event in the United States, 【C7】______perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time during fall or winter one can 【C8】______one’s TV set and see the top athletic programs — from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford —【C9】______in front of packed houses and national TV audiences.
    The athletes themselves are【C10】______and provided with scholarships. College coaches identify【C11】______teen-agers and then go into high schools to【C12】______the country’s best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about【C13】______coaches can recruit — no recruiting calls after 9 p. m. , only one official visit to a campus — but they are often bent and sometimes【C14】______. Top college football programs【C15】______scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive【C16】______campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc.
    In return, the players【C17】______the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges 【C18】______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【C19】______and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins【C20】______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.
【C3】

选项 A、apparently
B、indirectly
C、regularly
D、greatly

答案B

解析 语义衔接题。本题可由后面的the added得到提示。此处缺一个副词修饰benefit,根据句中的the added publicity可知这并非直接的经济收益而是间接的收益,故选项[B]indirectly符合文意。其他选项:[A]apparently“明显地”与文意相反;[C]regularly"定期地,有规律地",[D]greatly"极大地"不符合上下文语义衔接。
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