SECTION-A\r\n\r\nQ1.Sports has rapidly become an established part of the entertainment industry and the smallest detail of sportsmen’s private lives is exposed by the media to public scrutiny. Top professionals are often describe as stars and large business interests exploit their Skills. Considerable profits are made out of selling sports gear which is a replica of that used by the professionals; newspapers sell more copies if their sports coverage is good, and substantial gains can be made out of the spectators’ willingness to gamble om results. The increasing demand for new talented sportsmen serves to strengthen the popular image of professional sport as a highly glamorous occupation the jealousy shown to players who succeed and the failure-rate of young entrants are ignored by the press. Even those who reach the heights maintain their supremacy for only a relatively short period and then desperately need help to establish themselves in a new career.\r\n\r\nIt is always interesting to do something you enjoy and to do it as well as possible but serious injury or an unaccountable loss of form quickly halts the progress of many a young sportsman. A handful of top professional can afford a house in London another in the Country and a third on the French Riviera as well as a Rolls-Royce; and a yacht. Most can only manage a bare living Outdoor life can be Delightful except when the prevalent weather conditions are rain wind Snow fog or ice. It is flattering to hear one’s name chanted with acclaim by thousands on the terraces but crowds are fickle and soon forget.\r\n\r\nSportsmen at the height of their profession travel the word and visit exotic places, but their own social lives are disrupted and leisure hours have to be sacrificed to hard, exhausting practice . All professional sportsmen must adhere to strict training schedules to maintain their physical fitness, their lives are devoted to keeping the body in peak condition by exhausting exercise combined with a strict regime of self-discipline and moderation in food and drink.\r\n\r\nAt an early age comes retirement. The financial rewards gained will probably not provide enough to live on for the rest of life and the early-retired sportsman has to seek a new career. He enters this fifteen years later than his contemporaries and often with not enough reputation in his sport to persuade an employer to pay him a high salary.\r\n\r\nPerhaps, after all, it is better to remain a keen amateur.\r\n\r\nQuestions:\r\n\r\n(i)How do large business interests exploit sportsmen’s skills ?\r\n

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Why is it better to be a keen amateur than a professional sportsman?

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Use the word exposed in a sentence of your own.

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Use the word ‘fickle’ in a sentence of your own.

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Gives synonyms of jealousy’ and ‘exhausting’.

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