Question

For the rest of March，a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school.__ 1. Employees will suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.

The disease, known as “March Madness”, refers to the yearly 65?team US men’s college basketball tournament(錦標賽)．__2.__ Teams compete against each other in a single?elimination(單局淘汰) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.

Nearly 20 million Americans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness.The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game.Friends compete against friends. 3.__ Colleagues against bosses.

Big?name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament.But each year there are dark horses from little?known universities.

This adds to the madness.Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000，for many Americans，is an exciting experience.Some years ago，the little?known George Mason University was one of the final four teams._ 4.__

College basketball players are not paid，so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves._ 5.__ About $4 billion will be spent gambling(賭) on the event.According to Media Life magazine，the event will bring in $500 million in advertising income this year，topping the post?season income of every US professional league，including that of the NBA.

A．Husbands against wives.

B．The players will go all out for the games.

C．But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.

D．College students will ignore piles of homework.

E．People are willing to spend more money on watching it.

F．It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.

G．Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.

Answer 1

1.D

2.F

3.A

4.G

5.C

【解析】

試題分析：“三月瘋狂”（即美國大學籃球繁忙冠軍賽季）席卷美國。

1.D考查文章的結構和上下文的邏輯關系。該段簡要講述是是：這種浪潮給不同人群所帶來的影響。題文講到了“它使小孩們待在家里而不是學校。員工會突然失去他們的注意力。”故該空選擇D.College students will ignore piles of homework.大學生們會忽略掉一大堆家庭作業(yè)。

2.F考查文章的結構和上下文的邏輯關系。該段向讀者簡介“三月瘋狂”的基本情況，故該空選擇F. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning of April.它從在3月15日開始,持續(xù)到4月初結束。告訴人們“三月瘋狂”的時間。

3.A考查上下文的邏輯關系。該部分講述的是“三月瘋狂”的樂趣在于猜每場比賽的獲勝者。朋友于朋友爭（誰是獲勝者）。下屬與老板爭。故該空應選A.Husbands against wives.[來丈夫與妻子爭。

4.G考查上下文的邏輯關系。該段承接上段講得是比賽中不乏出現(xiàn)黑馬，且根據(jù)該空的前一句中的用以修飾George Mason University的“the little?known”，可知該空的正確答案為G.Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.在比賽前很多人甚至從來沒有聽說過這所大學。

5.C考查上下文的邏輯關系。該空前句“College basketball players are not paid，so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves.”大學籃球運動員沒有報酬，所以,這個比賽更多的是為他們的大學和他們自己的名聲所考慮，而其后內(nèi)容則告訴讀者這個比賽所帶來的經(jīng)濟效益。故此空需要表示轉折且其內(nèi)容應與“錢”相關，所以正確答案為C．But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involved.但這并不意味著與金錢無關。

考點：文章結構和上下文的邏輯關系