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[简答题]High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics
A)In this month’s Atlantic cover article, “The Case Against High-School Sports,” Amanda Ripley argues that school-sponsored sports programs should be seriously cut. She writes that, unlike most countries that outperform the United States on international assessments, American schools put too much of an emphasis on athletics, “ Sports are embedded in American schools in a way they are not almost anywhere else,” she writes, “Yet this difference hardly ever comes up in domestic debates about America’s international mediocrity(平庸)in education.”
B)American student-athletes reap many benefits from participating in sports, but the costs to the schools could outweigh their benefits, she argues, In particular, Ripley contends that sports crowd out the academic missions of schools: America should learn from South Korea and Finland and every other country at the top level of international test scores, all of whom emphasize athletics far less i
[单项选择]Participation in high school sports is not a constitutional right (62) , it is a privilege, paid for by taxpayers, open to students who promise to (63) certain conduct requirements on and off the field. One of these (64) is to refrain (抑制) from using drugs.
Drug (65) is a serious problem among high school students. Studies show that as many as 500,000 high school students use muscle-pum ping, life-destroying (66) such as steroids (类固醇). Many more use illegal drugs, which cause discipline problems and (67) the stage for lifelong addictions.
Drug testing works to prevent and (68) use. That is why drug testing is required when athletes compete in the Olympics and the National Football League. (69) drug testing was instituted by these organizations, use of performance-enhancing drugs has been greatly (70) . We should want nothing (71) in schools. (72) , many athletes support testing pr