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】______  29in 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—hut 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.
【40】

选项 A、in principle
B、in confidence
C、in name
D、in earnest

答案D

解析 此题属于语意搭配题。in earnest表示“正式地,认真地”,根据题意:训练营的集训以及为九至十二月赛季的开幕所做的准确工作应该是很严肃、正式地,故选项D in earnest(正式地)符合题意。选项A in principle表示“原则上”;选项B in confidence表示“私下里”;选项C in name表示“名义上”。
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