Vocabulary DevelopmentScan the following passage and find the words or phrases that have roughly the same meanings as those given.The game of baseball was at first a game for enjoyment before it became a business. The rivalries between teams brought in large capital. Businessmen soon saw the economic importance of baseball and began exploiting it. The stars of the game gave rise to the modern day sports hero. Babe Ruth among others began this phenomenon and it has carried on into the present, infiltrating other sports.Technological advances in communication by the invention of telegraphs, phones, and radio as well as improvements in transportation like trolleys, railroads, and cars fueled the popularity of the game. Technological advances also transformed the game from an amateur game into a professional game. Such improvements caused baseball to reach its pinnacle; however, the technological advances like television caused baseball never to reach such heights again.Once people began watching the sport on television, the spectators stopped attending the games. Although the sport has completed the transformation from an amateur game into a professional spectator sport, baseball has lost many fans to new and contemporary sports like football, basketball, and other extreme sports like surfing and skating.Despite the decline in popularity of the game, the sport of baseball represents American culture, history, and identity. It is not a perfect game, with a perfect past. Rather it is an imperfect game with a sometimes ugly and yet sometimes beautiful past.1. competitions______
【正确答案】：rivalries
【题目解析】：P125
