完形填空因短文中抽掉一些单词，阅读起来难度较大。竞赛已充分考虑到了完形填空主观题的难度，采取了一些降低难度的办法：短文材料比阅读理解材料容易读懂；所填单词给出了必要的提示。下面请看选词完形填空题：
阅读短文，根据其内容从所给词中选出最恰当的9个，并用其适当形式填空。（每个词只可使用一次）
| difficulty,so,other,play,but,hate,than,like,famous,need,can,they |
To Play or Not to Play
Many very good soccer (51) _________ don’t want to become professional athletes(职业运动员). Some of them don’t want to travel. They(52) _________ staying home near their families.(53) _________ realize that soccer (54) _________ be a dangerous game.Players can be hurt very badly.But many professional athletes make more (55) _________ a million dollars a year.
Professional athletes usually become famous.Some of them think that this will make (56) _________ happy,but they sometimes find that they are(57) _________ for only a short time.When athletes become famous,reporters and fans watch them all the time and follow them everywhere.The money and the excitement are GREat,(58) _________ the life of a professional athlete can be (59) _________ .
人人都有得意日，人人也有苦恼时。这篇短文主要讲述了许多职业足球运动员的苦恼。
51. players。许多非常优秀的足球运动员不想成为职业运动员。所给单词play为动词，根据句意应转换为名词，并用其复数形式。
52. like。其中有些人不想远行。他们喜欢待在家里，不想远离家人。
53. Others;
54. can。另一些人意识到足球可能是一项危险的运动。前句讲了一些人的想法，本句讲了另一些人的想法。other不能单独指代另一些人或物。
55. than。但许多职业运动员每年所挣的钱在一百万美金以上。
56. them。职业运动员出名之后当然会使他们高兴。动词后面用人称代词的宾格作宾语。
57. famous。本句讲到，球星出名的时间不会很长。
58. but；
59. difficult。前几句讲了职业球员出名之后往往会受到媒体的关注和球迷的崇拜，接着讲他们享受丰厚的报酬和进球的兴奋。然后话锋一转，讲到了他们要承受生活中的种种压力和困难。difficulty是名词，在这里要转换成形容词difficult。
