It’s not difficult to understand our desire for athletes to be heroes. On the surface, at least, athletes display a vital and indomitable spirit; they are gloriously alive _62_ their bodies. And   sports  do  allow  us  to _63_ acts  that can   legitimately  be  described  as _64_, thrilling,   beautiful, even noble. In a(n) _65_ complicated and disorderly world, sports are still 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 otherwise unremarkable neighborhood kid into a Michael Jordan. To become a star athlete, you have to have an extremely competitive _72_ and you have to be totally focused on the development of your own physical skills. These qualities    _73_ well make a great athlete, _74_ they don’t necessarily make a great person.   On top of this, our society reinforces these _75_ by the system it has created  to  produce   athletes---a system characterized by _76_ responsibility and enormous privilege. The athletes themselves suffer the _77_ of this system. Trained to measure themselves perpetually _78 the achievements of those around them, many young athletes develop a sense of sociologist Walter Schafar has _79_ “conditional self-worth”. They learn very quickly that they will be accepted by the important figures in their lives---parents, coaches and peers as long as they are _80_ as “winner”. Unfortunately they become   _81_ and behave as if their athletic success will last forever.

62.   A)    outside           B)    inside   C)    besides           D)   beside 63.   A)    depict             B)    witness   C)    distinguish      D)   concentrate 64.   A)    courageous     B)   rigorous        C)    conspicuous   D)   gorgeous 65.   A)    increasingly    B)    constantly   C)    successively   D)   respectively   66.   A)    glamour          B)    greatness   C)    ambition         D)   charm 67.   A)    paradox          B)    paradise   C)    galaxy            D)   shuttle 68.   A)    tries               B)    risks   C)    tends              D)   endeavors 69.   A)    social             B)   communal        C)    huge                     D)   important 70.   A)    fabulous         B)    opposite        C)    notorious        D)   intact 71.   A)    enforce          B)    transform                     C)    interact           D)   distract   72.   A)    enthusiasm     B)    aspire                    C)    outlook           D)   view   73.   A)    may               B)    can         C)    must                     D)   should 74.   A)    so                  B)    and         C)    as                  D)   but 75.   A)    vogues           B)    traits              C)    insights          D)   instincts 76.   A)    refrained         B)    limited            C)    avoided          D)   prohibited       77.   A)    amends          B)    surpluses        C)    bonuses          D)   costs 78.   A)    against           B)    to           C)    by                  D)   in     79.   A)    titled              B)    termed           C)    suppressed     D)   conceptualized           80.   A)    conceived       B)    perceived        C)    affected          D)   effected   81.   A)    conceited        B)    reckless          C)    unanimous      D)   spontaneous