职称英语考试

【单选题】第一篇　　 March Madness　　For the rest of the month, an epidemic (传染病) will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school.College students will ignore piles of homework.Employees will suddenly lose their abilities to concentrate.　　The disease, known as "March Madness", refers to the yearly 65-team US men’s college basketball tournament. It begins on March 15 and lasts through the beginning ofApril. Teams compete against each other in a single elimination tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.　　Nearly 20 millionAmericans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness.　　The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends, husbands against wives, and 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 manyAmericans, is an exciting experience. Last year, the little-known George Mason University was one of the final four teams. Many people had never even heard of the university before the tournament.　　College basketball players are not paid, so the game is more about making a name for their university and themselves.But that doesn’t mean money isn’t involve
D、　　About $4 billion will be spent gambling on the event.According to Media Life　　magazine, the event will draw over $500 million in advertising revenue this year, topping the post-season revenue, including that of the NB
A、(全国篮球协会). It is great fun
A、looking at wives kissing their husbands.

B、listening to students talking to their teachers.
C．betting on the winners of each game.

D、watching farmers kicking their donkeys.

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