Please please help! article: getting a college sports scholarship is a long shot

question 1- Read the following sentence from the article.

For example, the percentage of high school athletes who receive a scholarship for men's college basketball is less than 2 percent and for women's basketball is less than 2.5 percent.

How does this detail develop the article’s central idea?

a)It shows that more female college basketball players get scholarship money than male players.

b)It shows that just a few male and female high school athletes get a college basketball scholarship.

c)It shows that scholarship money for male and female basketball players is unequal at the college level.

d)It shows that female basketball players are playing a little bit better in college than male players.

question 2- Which sentence from the article would be MOST important to include in a summary of the article?

a) The college football season has started, so college sports are all over television and in the media.
b) Lots of kids (and their parents) dream of getting a scholarship to play sports in college.
c) These dreams of receiving scholarship money often drive kids to specialize in one sport.
d) Play to have fun, make friends and to learn to try your hardest no matter what the score is.

question 3- Read the sentence from the article.
For example, the NCAA allows a Division I baseball team to issue only 11.7 scholarships for its roster.
Which of the following words, if it replaced the word "allows" in the sentence above, would CHANGE the meaning of the sentence?
a) permits
b) authorizes
c) prefers
d) enables

question 4- Read the following selection from the article. Then, fill in the blank.
But don't count on an athletic scholarship to college. The numbers show that's a long shot.
The phrase "a long shot" in the sentence above tells the reader that .

a) it takes a lot of time to get an athletic scholarship to college
b) mostly basketball players get an athletic scholarship to college
c) it is difficult to get an athletic scholarship to college
d) much skill is needed to get an athletic scholarship to college