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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 21 millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions 22 as well, in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit 23 from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name universities 24 each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly 25 crowds of over 90, 000. Basketball’s national collegiate championship game is a TV 26 on a par with(与......相同或相似) any other sporting event in the United States, 27 perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time during fall or winter one can 28 one’s TV set and see the top athletic programs—from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford— 29 in front of packed houses and national TV audiences.
    The athletes themselves are 30 and provided with scholarships. College coaches identify 31 teenagers and then go into high schools to 32 the country’s best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about 33 coaches can recruit—no recruiting calls after 9 p.m. , only one official visit to a campus—but they are often bent and sometimes 34 . Top college football programs 35 scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive 36 campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc.
    In return, the players 37 the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges 38 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 39 and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins 40 . 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、compete for
B、compete in
C、compete against
D、compete over
答案C
解析 compete against此题属于语意搭配题。此处需与句中宾语each other搭配的短语，选项[C]competeagainst sb．(与某人竞争)，符合题意。其他选项：[A]compete for sth．，[B]compete in arace和[D]compete over sth．均属搭配不当。全句可译为：名牌大学之间在大多数流行运动项目上都进行比赛。
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