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This was the World Cup the French would rather forget. The Blues returned without a single goal to their credit—an ignominious f

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问题     This was the World Cup the French would rather forget. The Blues returned without a single goal to their credit—an ignominious first for a defending champion. " Twisted and blinded by success and money," ran a typical editorial in Le Figaro , "the players and those around them neglected the most important thing: the football field. " The charge is a familiar one across Europe, where most of the sport’s superstars play for salaries that have an obscene number of zeros in them. The worry, however, is less that footballers are becoming too spoiled to play well than their teams are driving themselves to financial ruin.
    Each of the official footballing nations has its own specific problems, but the bottom line for many clubs is the same. "The increase in expenditure has simply exceeded the increase in revenue," says Thomas Kurth of G14, the loose association that groups Europe’s top clubs. Real Madrid had fallen $382 million into debt before selling off its training ground to developers last year.
    The scale of debts is tough to square with massive uptick in revenues the sport as a whole has enjoyed over the past decade. Rupert Murdoch set the ball rolling in 1992 when he outbid the BBC for the rights to show live matches of England’s Premier League on his BSkyB satellite channel. Competition intensified as other TV magnates quickly recognized the game’s potential as a means of pushing their new pay channels.
    Obviously club owners are the ones handing out the outlandish paychecks. "You can have highly talented businessmen who have run their own companies with huge success. But when the door shuts behind them at a club they become someone else," says Jean-Paul de la Fuente of Media Content, a sports-rights consultancy. These bosses are typically spared the more rigorous disciplines of the marketplace, including angry shareholders and stingy banks. Says Oliver Butler of Research Service Soccer Investor: "The financial authorities don’t regulate clubs as if they were limited companies—and the banks don’t want to be firebombed by the fans. "
    To avert ruin, however, clubs must learn the dreary business of cost control. One idea being discussed is to limit the team salary caps. Any form of compulsory cap, though, might fall afoul of EU anti-competition rules. Besides, such regulations won’t be welcome to the select band of clubs—mostly from the Premier League—that have already learned to balance their books and live by orthodox business codes. Other teams could learn a thing or two about winning from them.
From the fourth paragraph, we can infer that
选项 A、owners of football clubs are highly talented businessmen.
B、football clubs’ owners enjoy more privileges in the marketplace.
C、the financial authorities have no right to regulate football clubs.
D、football fans can protect football clubs against the bank’s accusation.
答案B
解析 从第四段我们可以推断出，[A]足球俱乐部的老板都是商业天才。[B]足球俱乐部的老板在市场上享有更多的特权。[C]金融机构无权管制足球俱乐部。[D]足球迷可以保护俱乐部免受银行的指控。第四句话指出，这些老板们，包括气愤的股东和吝啬的银行在内，通常都不受严格的市场规范的约束。也就是说，足球俱乐部享有更多的特权。所以本题的正确答案为[B]。奥利弗·巴特勒说“金融机构不会去管制俱乐部"并不等于说他们无权管制俱乐部，所以[C]是不正确的。
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