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It's not difficult to understand our desire forathletes to be heroes. On the surface, at least, athletes display a vital and indomitablespirit; they are gloriously alive 62 their bodies. And sports do allow us to 63 actsthat can legitimately be described as 64 , thrilling, beautiful, even noble. Ina ( n ) 65 complicated and disorderly world, sports arestill an arena in which we can regularly witness a certain kind of 66 .Yet there's something of a 67 here,for the very qualities a society 68 to seek in its heroes selflessness, 69 consciousness, and the like--are precisely the 70 of those which are needed to 71 a talented but otherwiseunremarkable neighborhood kid into a Michael Jordan. To become a star athlete, youhave to have an extremely competitive 72 and you have to be totallyfocused on the development of your own physical skills. These qualities 73 wellmake a great athlete, 74 they don't necessarily make a great person.
On top ofthis, our society reinforces these 75 bythe system it has created to produce athletes--a system characterizedby 76 responsibility and enormous privilege.
The athletes themselves suffer the 77 ofthis system. Trained to measure themselves perpetually 78 theachievements of those around them, many young athletes develop a sense ofsociologist Walter Schafer has 79 "conditional self-worth". They learnvery quickly that they will be accepted by the important figures in theirlives--parents, coaches and peers as long as they are 80 as"winner". Unfortunately they become 81 and behave as if their athletic success willlast forever.
__________ A. outside
B. inside
C. besides
D. beside
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