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1Which of the following is NOT one of the widely used arguments made to justify public support for professional sport teams?
A)Professional teams create positive psychic and social benefits in a city.
B)A stadium and a professional team create jobs for citizens in a city.
C)Team owners regularly share their profits with city governments.
D)Professional teams attract other businesses to the city.


2Many sport team owners have made requests for new stadiums because they want to
A)serve more local citizens from working-class backgrounds.
B)have the highest-paid players in their respective leagues.
C)hold down ticket prices for the average sport spectator.
D)gain access to new revenue streams related to the stadium.


3The authors note that recently built sport stadiums tend to resemble
A)medieval cathedrals in Europe.
B)the homes of wealthy season ticket owners.
C)shopping malls with a playing field in the middle.
D)factories designed to produce winning teams.


4The nonprofit sponsors of amateur sports in the U.S. are primarily interested in
A)maintaining their power and raising money through sponsorships.
B)preserving processes enabling athletes to control their own careers in sport.
C)using amateur sports to generate mass sport participation among people of all ages.
D)organizing competitions for young athletes in developmental programmes.


5The power of organizations that control amateur sports is primarily related to
A)the number of their athletes who have successful careers outside of sports.
B)their relationships with political leaders and governmental agencies.
C)the money they generate through sport events and sponsorships.
D)the organizational abilities of their administrators.


6As corporate sponsorships are used as the sole basis of support for amateur athletes and sport organizations, amateur sports will come to depend on the
A)income earning potential of amateur athletes.
B)business training of amateur sport officials.
C)socially progressive visions of sports that corporate executives have.
D)prosperity of market economies and the profits of large corporations.


7Despite the success of players’ organizations in professional team sports, it is difficult to get players to join an organization that may ask them to participate in a strike. This is because athletes
A)come from very conservative family backgrounds.
B)see themselves more as artists than as workers.
C)have short playing careers and are dependent on owners.
D)have strong desires to see team owners of their teams make money.


8The salaries of professional athletes in team sports in the UK
A)are highest in the sports involving the most danger and risk.
B)have always been higher than the average incomes of corporate CEOs.
C)tend to decline when team owners compete to sign players to contracts.
D)reflect the legal status of players and revenues generated by those sports.


9The authors note that many of the professional athletes in individual sports make less money than people think because they
A)are paid only a predetermined percentage of all gate receipts.
B)must pay for all officials and promotional expenses for events.
C)often pay their own expenses for travel and training.
D)many not receive legal advice when they negotiate endorsement contracts.


10The legal status of amateur athletes around the world is controlled by
A)numerous organizations, each with their own interests and goals.
B)a single international commission on amateur sports.
C)the parents of the athletes.
D)powerful players’ unions in different sports.





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