题目内容
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[1]In the past ten years, America's National Basketball Association(NBA)has grown increasingly dependent on the rest of the world to supply players.
[2]When Larry Bird and Michael Jordan won gold in Barcelona last century, the Americans were praised for teaching the worlds how to play basketball.This season, however, 20 percent of NBA rosters(花名册)will be filled by non-Americans.NBA commissioner David Stem happily embraces the trend.On a visit to Paris in October, Stem outlined his vision for the future, which is likely to see more European countries hosting NBA games by 2015.
[3]The NBA is now intending to make China its market center.“Our experience in China has been that it is going to be explosive in its growth, ” said Stem, The strategy in China is television.“We’ve made 14 deals in China with local and national networks on cable and satellite, ” The success of Chinese centre Yao Ming has paved the way for the NBA marketing blitz in China.The NBA, which is broadcasted in more than 200 countries in 42 languages, will put that to the test in October 2004 when the Houston Rockets play two pre-season games against the Sacramento Kings in Beijing and Shanghai.The NBA knows that it needs a global market to compensate for tough times on home soil.
[4]“It makes no difference where the players come from, and ________ is that all the NBA teams know they have to scout(物色球员)internationally.” said Terry Lyons, the NBA's vice-president of international public relations.“it has increased the level of competition here.” As Frenchman Tony Parker and Argentine Emanuel Ginobili showed in wining championship rings with the San Antonio Spurs last season, many people can earn the respect of their American peers.Others, such as the Houston Rockets’ Chinese centre You Ming-number one draft pick in 2002-and the Detroit Pistons’18-year-old Serb Darko Milicic-number two overall in this year's draft-are icons in-waiting.It is the ultimate revolution-the rest of the world teaching the US how to play basketball.
1.What's the main idea of the passage?(no more than12 words)
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2.Complete the following sentence with words from the passage.(no more than 3 words)
The NBA desperately needs to explore ________ as a compensation for the
depression at home.
3.Why do all the NBA teams try to scout internationally?(no more than 8words)
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4.Fill in the blank in paragraph 4 with proper words or expressions.(within 3 words)
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5.What does the word “its”(line1, paragraph 3)probably refer to?(no more than 2 words)
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解析:
1.NBA has grown increasingly dependent on other countries to supply players
2.a global market
3.Because it can increase their level of competition [来源:学科网]
4.what(really)matters
5.(the)NBA's