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Directions: Complete the following paragraphs by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. valued B. challenge C. continual D. deal E. requirements
F. vary G. question H. goal I. retired J. experience K. rated |
College Sportsmen
College sports, especially football and basketball, are a big industry. Nationally 1 teams and television broadcast rights can be worth millions of dollars.
This could be seen as a good 2 all around. Colleges invest in their players and, in return, the schools earn money and attention. The athletes often get a free education. And they gain 3 that might lead to a chance to play professionally.
But critics 4 the morality of a situation where college athletes may seem 5 more as athletes than as college students. Praise is heard for recent improvements in graduation rates. Yet critics say that some players who finish college never really learn anything except their sport.
Getting back to the question of how much college athletes study, a better answer would be: it all depends. The expectations and pressures on athletes 6 from school to school and sport to sport.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association governs college sports in the United States. For the past few years, this organization has been increasing 7 for student athletes. College athletes are required to make 8 progress toward earning their degree. Yet finishing college is not always a 9 for students who are good enough to play professionally.
Fans of American football may remember the 10 New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. Last weekend, he graduated from the University of Alabama. He left that school forty-two years ago to play for the Jets. Now he is sixty-four, but he went back-in part, he says, because he had promised his mother to finish his education.
