单选题 Questions 46 to 50 ale based are the following passage Sport is heading for an indissoluble marriage with television and the passive spectator will enjoy a ph-rate paradise. All of ibis will be in the future of sport The spectator (the television audience) will be the priority and professional clubs will have to readjust their structures to adapt to a business. The new technologies will mean that spectators will no longer have to wait for broadcasts by the conventional channels They will be the ones who decide what, to see And they will have to pay for it In the United States the system of the future has already started pay-as-you-view Everything will be offered by television and the spectator will only have to choose. The review Sports Illustrated recently published a full profile of the life of the supporter at home in the middle of the next century. It explained that the consumers would be able to select their view of the match on a gigantic, flat screen occupying the whole of one wall, with rages of a clarity which cannot be foreseen at present; they could wash from the trainer’ s stands just behind the trotter in a game of baseball or from the helmet of the star player in an American football game. And at their disposal toll be the sane option $ the prodder of the recorded programmer has to select replays, to choose which camera to me and to decide on the sound whether to hear the public, the players, the trainer and so on Many sports executives, largely too old and too conservative to feel at home with the new technologies will believe that sport must control the expansion of television coverage in order to survive and ensure that spectators attend matches, They do not even accept the evidence which contradicts their view while there is more basketball than ever on television, for example, it is also certain that. basketball is more popular than ever It is also the argument of these sports executives that television harming the modest team This is true, but the future of those teams is also modest. They have reached their ceiling It is the law of the rnarket The great events continually attract larger audience The world I being constructed on new technologies so that people can make the utmost use of their time and their home have access to the greatest possible range of recreational activities Sport lave to adapt itself to the new world. The most visionary executives go further, That philosophy is rather than see television take over sport why not have sports taken over television?
单选题 What does the writer mean by use of the phrase "an indissoluble marriage in the first paragraph?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 语义理解题。题干中的“an indissoluble marriage”定位在第一段第一句，该句中的marriage的意思是婚姻，并且根据原文主旨一直谈论体育与电视的关系，因此可以推断出marriage的引申含义是结合，对应A选项中的is combined with。其他选项均不符合题意。
单选题 What does "they ”in line 2 paragraph 2 stand for?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 语义理解题。题干中的“they”定位第二段第二句，they指代是第一句中的复数名词，包括：technologies，spectators，broadcasts和channels。第二句的意思是他们决定观看什么，第三句用and表示与第二句为并列结构，第三句的意思是他们为此付费。通过以上分析可知，they指代的是人而非物，只有人才可以decide和pay，因此C选项正确。
单选题 How do many sports executives feel with the new technologies?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。题干中的many sports executives和the new technologies定位在第三段第一句，该句用了too...to...句型表示否定，该句的意思是他们太老太保守而对新技术无法感到家一般的感受(也就是不适应)，对应B选项。A选项中的anything太过绝对化，并且原文也没有体现，属于无中生有。C选项和D选项没有理解too...to...表示否定意思，与原文意思相反。
单选题 What is going to be discussed in the following paragraphs?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。题干中的following paragraphs定位在最后一段，该段最后一句指出与其让电视控制体育，为什么体育不能控制电视呢?最后一句采用转折的写法。第四段指出电视对中庸球队的负面影响，第五段最后一句指出体育要适应电视的发展。这两个段落都在阐述电视对体育的影响，对应最后一段最后一句中see television take over sports的内容，因为最后一句用转折的写法，因此后面段落肯定要写体育控制电视的内容，对应D选项。A选项中philosophy在最后一段最后一句已经具体说明了，后面段落不会再谈及。B选项和C选项的内容在第四、五段已经阐述过了，不会在后面继续阐述。
单选题 What might be the appropriate title of this passage?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。分析文章各段内容可知： 第一段内容 第一句作者指出体育和电视结合 第二段内容 作者指出电视技术对体育赛事观众的正面影响 第三段内容 体育管理者对电视担忧：要求体育控制电视 第四段内容 继续论述体育管理者对电视影响中庸球队的担忧 第五段内容 最后一句指出体育要适宜电视的发展 第六段内容 有远见体育管理者指出不让电视控制体育，体育要尝试控制电视 结合以上段落内容分析发现，所有段落都围绕着体育和电视相互影响的这个概念展开，对应C选项。A选项定位在第四、五段，B选项定位在最后一段，D选项定位在第一段，都属于以偏赅全。