Часть XVI. Спортивный туризм Text 1. Sports: The History and Evolution

1. Убедитесь, что Вам понятны слова и выражения, перечисленные ниже. Если необходимо, воспользуйтесь словарем.

• to take for granted

• barely recognizable

• evolution

• to rival

• to affect

• social attitudes

• advance

• commitment

• sports clothing

• to inject into

• to emulate

• athlete

• fame

• office-seeker

• to boost

• boycotts

• the anti-apartheid movement

• downside

• exposure

• ideology

• otherwise

• noticeable

• the vast majority

• to move on to

• to go to college

• scholarship

• revenue

• to shoe-horn

• entrance

• forever linked

• amateur

• coach

• athletic director

• counterpart

• sponsorship

• to tie oneself to

• to ramp up

• onward

• influx

• obscene

• to perform

• to excess

• to decry

• spectator

• consumer

• public perception

• temptation

• to cheat

• to do whatever it takes

• to get ahead

• performance enhancing drugs

• gambling

• soccer

• blue-collar workers

• wages

• brainchild

• dominant force

• scholar

• to emerge

• to trace

• motorized bicycle

• tricycle

• track

• to go back

• to resurface

• the Olympics

• to compete

• alongside

• to be separated from

• stick and ball games

• murky

• apocryphal

• governing body

• to govern

• to pick up

2. Соедините разрозненные части выражений и составных слов.

1	barely	A	for granted
2	the anti-apartheid	B	clothing
3	forever	C	perception
4	performance enhancing	D	attitudes
5	social	E	workers
6	blue-collar	F	seeker
7	to take	G	drugs
8	office-	H	linked
9	sports	I	recognizable
10	public	J	movement

3. Заполните пробелы недостающими словами из текста.

26. Too many agencies have been making uncoordinated efforts to _________ economic development, the report finds, and greater collaboration is needed.

27. Some medieval _________ recommended wiping off the ink and disposing of the paper by ordinary means.

28. Walking just 30 minutes a day provides __________ health benefits.

29. But that’s just one step in an __________ that’s been unfolding for some time.

30. He ______________ a torn freight ticket drifting by in the breeze, and fell to figuring industriously, and the result was pleasant and reassuring.

31. His London agents had failed, but others would __________ for his business, and on better terms.

32. After all, how could lowering tax rates actually increase ___________?

33. Over the years, South Korea has sought reconciliation with North Korea while at the same time guarding against Communist ___________ infiltrating its society.

34. Eventually, 35 full-support humanities ___________ will be granted every year to new postgraduate entrants to the university.

The city is __________ by a mayor, 16 aldermen and 48 councilors.