单选题 Sport is heading for an indissoluble marriage with television and the passive spectator will enjoy a private paradise. All of this 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 the new reality: sport as 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 images of a clarity which cannot be foreseen at present; they could watch from the trainer"s bench, from the stands just behind the batter in a game of baseball or from the helmet of the star player in an American football game. And at their disposal will be the same options the producer of the recorded program has: to select replays, to choose which camera to use 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 is 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 market. The great events continually attract larger audience.
The world is being constructed on new technologies so that people can make the utmost use of their time and, in their home, have access to the greatest possible range of recreational activities. Sport will have to adapt itself to the new world.
The most visionary executives go further. Their philosophy is: rather than see television take over sport, why not have sports take over television?
单选题 What does the writer mean by saying "an indissoluble marriage" in the first paragraph?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 短语推断题。
根据题干问题词an indissoluble marriage和出处提示the first paragraph可回文定位至Para.1①。鉴于短语推断题的解题思路是根据问题短语的上、下文找寻线索推知其义，考生可一方面看marriage的自身含义，另一方面关注其下文：...and the passive spectator will enjoy a private paradise和③the television audience will be the priority…，既然“电视观众会享受到体育比赛的私人天堂”，并且是“体育俱乐部优先考虑的对象”，其意无疑是说“体育与电视正紧密结合”，这也符合marriage的内在寓意。比对选项可知A选项中的关键词is combined with正好是marriage的同义转述，故A选项正确。
单选题 What does "they" (Line 2, Paragraph 2) stand for?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 词汇推断题。
根据出处提示Paragraph 2和问题词they可回文定位至Para.2②：They will be the ones who decide what to see。鉴于词汇推断题的解题思路是根据问题词汇的上、下文找寻线索推知其义，再考虑到代词的指代原理(指代对象一般出现在上文)，考生可关注其上文①：The new technologies will mean that spectators will no longer have to wait for broadcasts by the conventional channels，此句共含有四个复数名词，但能够成为the ones who decide what to see(观看内容的决定者)的无疑只能是spectators，注意the ones who...中的who已明确暗示指“人”。比对选项可知C选项正好符合上述分析，是正确答案。
单选题 What do many sports executives think of the new technologies?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 人物态度题(习语推断)。
根据题于信号词sports executives、think of和the new technologies可回文精确定位至Para.3①：Many sports executives, largely too old and too conservative to feel at home with the new technologies, will believe that...，其中题干信号词think of与原文feel属同义转述。该句双逗号之间的信息明确说明了体育管理者对新技术的态度，但部分考生对习语feel at home可能不太了解，因此本题还涉及对习语推断能力的考查，故考生应根据该习语的上下文进行推断分析，前面讲体育管理者“过于年迈、过于保守”，因此他们对“新技术”这样的新鲜事物显然应是“排斥”、“不接受”或“感到不舒服”，比对选项可知B选项恰是原文语义的对应改写：feel ill at ease=too...to feel at home，因此答案选B选项。
注意：feel at home，本意是“感觉如同在家一样的”，即“舒服的”或“惬意的”。
单选题 What is going to be discussed in the following paragraphs?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 篇章结构题。
本题考查考生对“下文”未知信息的分析推断，根据语篇衔接的原理，其推断依据无疑应是尾段尾句(有承上启下功能)，细查此句(why not have sports take over television)会发现，本句语义是在讲述管理者的一种极端观点，属典型“人物观点句”。
一般来讲，有“点”必有“据”，即出现人物观点的地方，随后会出现相应的论据解释，换言之，本段下文应围绕管理者的极端立场做进一步扩展说明，比对选项会发现：D选项中的an example属常见的论据扩展形式，其后的语义“体育控制电视”也与尾段尾句的人物观点完全切合，故D选项是本题答案。
单选题 What might be the appropriate title of this text?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 篇章主旨题。
本文是典型的开门见山式结构，文章首句即直接点题——体育与电视的关系将(在未来)日益密切，这将(在未来)给电视观众带来体育的私人天堂。下文各段均是对此处信息的具体分述，具体来讲：
Para.2：扩展解释首段所述私人天堂的景象——观众将成为电视内容的决定者。
Para.3：通过批驳体育管理者的反对立场，从反面强化首段所述体育与电视结合的好处。
Para.4：同Para.3。
Para.5：强调体育须适应发展形势，以此进一步强化首段所述体育与电视结合的好处。
Para.6：继续批驳体育管理人士的极端立场，从反面强化首段立场。
综上所述，首段首句应是全文主旨句，即本题的题眼句，比对选项会发现，只有C选项涉及体育与电视两者的关系，且讲到两者的未来(即好处)，故C选项是正确项。