Read the text and decide which answer best completeseach collocation or fixed phrase
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5 Read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best completes
each collocation or fixed phrase.
Very few popular (1) ...C..... sports today remain amateur in any sense of the
word. In the past, even in cases where payment to players or athletes was
forbidden, many sports tolerated what became known as 'shamateurism', and
even the sports governing (2) ......... turned a blind eye to such (3) .........as the
paying of 'expenses'. More recently, sport has become, in effect, a (4) ..........of
the entertainment industry, and the elite (5) ......... in sports such as swimming,
tennis, football and track athletics can expect to become very rich. This worries
some people, who complain that the old Olympic ideal has been lost, but the
fact is, sport has become more and more professional in the wider sense, not
only requiring total dedication from (6) .........champions, but also expensive
facilities, training and nutritional advice.
1) A audience
2) A associations
3) A practices
4) A branch
5) A doers
6) A hopeful
B watching
B confederations
B occurrences
B division
B players
B aspiring
C spectator
C authorities
C acts
C wing
C makers
C striving
D viewing
D bodies
D operations
D limb
D performers
D wishful
5 Read the text and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best completes
each collocation or fixed phrase.
Very few popular (1) ...C..... sports today remain amateur in any sense of the
word. In the past, even in cases where payment to players or athletes was
forbidden, many sports tolerated what became known as 'shamateurism', and
even the sports governing (2) ......... turned a blind eye to such (3) .........as the
paying of 'expenses'. More recently, sport has become, in effect, a (4) ..........of
the entertainment industry, and the elite (5) ......... in sports such as swimming,
tennis, football and track athletics can expect to become very rich. This worries
some people, who complain that the old Olympic ideal has been lost, but the
fact is, sport has become more and more professional in the wider sense, not
only requiring total dedication from (6) .........champions, but also expensive
facilities, training and nutritional advice.
1) A audience
2) A associations
3) A practices
4) A branch
5) A doers
6) A hopeful
B watching
B confederations
B occurrences
B division
B players
B aspiring
C spectator
C authorities
C acts
C wing
C makers
C striving
D viewing
D bodies
D operations
D limb
D performers
D wishful