Baseball, on the other hand, seems more mental, like chess, and 27 those fans that prefer a quieter, more complicated game. 28 , professional football teams usually play no more than fourteen games a year.
答案：(A) In addition
前文列舉足球和棒球的差異，這句延續列舉另一個差異點（比賽場次），In addition（此外）承接繼續列舉；As a result（因此，不是因果關係）、In contrast（相反地，緊接著後面的 however 才是真正的對比詞）、To some extent（某種程度上）都不如 In addition 自然承接列舉。
這一篇從頭到尾都在比較兩種運動，你讀得越進去，越容易覺得「這裡當然又是在對比」，於是直接選了 In contrast。這正是這題鑑別度只有 35 的原因——它不是難在字義，是難在你被整篇的對比框架帶著走，忘了先確認這一句自己在做什麼事。
答對率 48%。真正的線索是這篇文章的列舉鏈。第二段開頭是 To begin with（首先），最後一段開頭是 Finally（最後），中間這一段開頭的空格，位置就卡在「首先」與「最後」之間，它必須是列舉鏈的中間那一環，也就是「此外、再者」。In addition 正好是這個功能。看出 To begin with → ___ → Finally 這條鏈，這題就結束了。另一個佐證：空格所在的整句是 ___ , professional football teams usually play no more than fourteen games a year，講的只有足球一方，沒有把棒球拿來比。真正的對比出現在下一句 Baseball teams, however, play almost every day for six months，however 才是那個對比詞。一個段落不會在開頭跟句中連放兩個對比連接詞。
In contrast 是「相較之下」，如上所述，對比的工作已經由下一句的 however 做掉了。As a result 是「因此」，要求前後有因果，可是足球節奏快並不會「導致」它一年只打十四場。To some extent 是「某種程度上」，用來把話說軟、保留語氣，這裡並沒有要打折扣的意思。
in addition（此外、再者）、in addition to sth（除了……之外還有）、as a result（因此）、as a result of sth（由於）、to some extent（在某種程度上）、no more than（僅僅、不超過）。
Fans of professional baseball and football argue continually over which is America's favorite sport. Though the figures on attendance for each vary with every new season, certain 26 remain the same.
To begin with, football is a quicker, more physical sport, and football fans enjoy the emotional involvement they feel while watching. Baseball, on the other hand, seems more mental, like chess, and 27 those fans that prefer a quieter, more complicated game.
28 , professional football teams usually play no more than fourteen games a year. Baseball teams, however, play 29 every day for six months.
Finally, football fans seem to love the half-time activities, the marching bands, and the pretty cheerleaders. 30 , baseball fans are more content to concentrate on the game's finer details and spend the breaks between innings filling out their own private scorecards.