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 (1)_____ millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions (2)_____ as well, in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit (3)_____ from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name universities (4)_____ each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly (5)_____ crowds of over 90,000. Basketball’s national collegiate championship game is a TV (6)_____ on a par with any other sporting event in the United States, (7)_____ perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time during fall or winter one can (8)_____ one’s TV set and see the top athletic programs—from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford— (9)_____ in front of packed houses and national TV audiences.
    The athletes themselves are (10)_____ and provided with sch61arships. College coaches identify (11)_____ teenagers and then go into high schools to (12)_____ the country’s best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about (13)_____ coaches can recruit—no recruiting calls after 9 p. m., only one official visit to a campus—but they are often bent and sometimes (14)_____. Top college football programs (15)_____ scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive (16)_____ campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc.
    In return, the players (17)_____ the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges (18)_____ 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 (19)_____ and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins (20)_____ 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 此题属于语意搭配题。此处需要与句中宾语each other搭配的短语,选项compete against sb.(与某人竞争),符合题意。其他选项:compete for+sth.,compete in+a race和compete over +sth.用在此处均属搭配不当。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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