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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

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问题     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.
【B19】
选项 A、conceived
B、affected
C、perceived
D、effected
答案C
解析 考查动词辨析。空格处所在句子意为“…只要他们被______是赢家”。C．perceived意为“认为”，符合句意，为正确答案。conceive意为“构思”；affect意为“影响”；effect意为“引起，招致”，均不符合题意。
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