Whether the game will be played（）the weather.

________ the football game will be played depends on the weather.

A、If

B、That

C、Whether

D、Since

A.depend on

B.depending on

C.depended on

D.depends on

A.costs

B.lays

C.depends

D.comes

elings of various competitive groups in order to create really intense and enthusiastic groups of online gamers, essentially out of people who have often never played an online game in their lives before. 译文： 为了打造真正专注的、有热情的网上玩家团队，我们试图发挥各种各样的竞争团队的在游戏中的感受，特别是那些之前从未玩过网上游戏的人。()

er it's one of London's parks full of people playing softball, and Russians taking up rugby, or the Superbowl rivaling the British Football Cup Final as a televised spectator event in Britain, the patterns of players and spectators are changing beyond recognition. We are witnessing a globalization of our sporting culture.

That annual bicycle race, the Tour de France, much loved by the French, is a good case in point. Just a few years back it was a strictly continental affair with France, Belgium and Holland, Spain and Italy taking part in. But in recent years it has been dominated by Colombian mountain climbers, and American and Irish riders.

The people who really matter welcome the shift toward globalization. Peugeot, Michelin and Panasonic are multi-national corporations that want worldwide returns for the millions they invest in teams. So it does them literally a world of good to see this unofficial world championship become just that.

This is undoubtedly an economic-based revolution we are witnessing here, one made possible by communications technology, but made to happen because of marketing considerations. Sell the game and you can sell Coca Cola or Budweiser as well.

The skillful way in which American football has been sold to Europe is a good example of how all sports will develop. The aim of course is not really to spread the sport for its own sake, but to increase the number of people interested in the major money-making events. The economics of the Superbowl are already astronomical. With seats at US ＄125, gate receipts alone were a staggering ＄10,000,000. The most important statistic of the clay, however, was the ＄10,000,000 in TV advertising fees. Imagine how much that becomes when the eyes of the world are watching.

So it came as a terrible shock, but not really as a surprise, to learn that some people are now suggesting that soccer change from being a game of two 45-minute halves, to one of four 25-minute quarters. The idea is unashamedly to capture more advertising revenue, without giving any thought for the integrity of a sport which relies for its essence on the flowing nature of the action.

Moreover, as sports expand into world markets, and as our choice of sports as consumers also grows, we will demand to see them played at a higher and higher level. In boxing we have already seen numerous, dubious world title categories because people will not pay to see anything less than a "World Title" fight, and this means that the title fights have to be held in different countries around the world!

Globalization of sporting culture means that ______.

A．more people are taking up sports

B．traditional sports are getting popular

C．many local sports are becoming international

D．foreigners are more interested in local sports

A.at

B.in

C.on

D.about

A.depends

B.dependent

C.dependable

D.independent.

A.When

B.If

C.Whether

D.That

A.playing

B.played

C.having played

D.be played

17th Century. We can use this idiom to express the meaning that someone becomes the target of public criticism.()

A.June six

B.six June

C.the six of June

D.the sixth of June