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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)模拟158 Section Ⅰ Use of English 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 20,000. Basketballs 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 ones 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 scholarships. College coaches identify 11 teenagers and then go into high schools to 12 the countrys 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, its back to strength and agility training four days a week until mid-August, when camp 19 and prepares for the opening of the September-to-December season begins 20 . During the season, practice, s last two or three hours a day from Tuesday to Friday. S