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be minor heats of synchronized swimming （花样游泳） have received an unexpected change to the
men"s 100m final because of an embarrassing ticketing mistake.
The London 2012 Organizing Committee （Locog） confirmed on Wednesday that an error in its
ticket selling had led to four synchronized swimming competitions being oversold by 10, 000 tickets.
Locog and its ticket agent spent the Christmas period contacting ticket holders and offering them
alternatives that included the tickets they had applied for but unsuccessful. The changes need no additional cost. It has also offered to return any discrepancy （差额） if the new tickets cost less than the originals. Locog said the replacement tickets would come from a number of unsold seats across the Olympic
Games and that it was doing all it could to make up the error to the fans who bought tickets.
Locog said the error occurred in the summer, between the first and second round of ticket sales,
when a member of staff made a mistake, entering “20,000” into the computer rather than the correct
figure of 10,000 remaining tickets. The error was discovered when Locog checked the number of tickets
that had been sold against the final seating numbers, and began contacting ticket holders before Christmas.
Thousands of ticket holders have already struck lucky, changing to tickets for major events including
swimming and athletics finals, and in around 200 cases the hottest of all, the men’s 100m final. Locog said
the decision to award 100m final tickets was made because one of the synchronized swimming
competitions was on the same afternoon as the event, August 5.
B. will not enjoy the synchronized swimming events
C. will have to change their tickets to other games
D. have applied for tickets to the men’s 100m final
B. allowed the holders to apply for another ticket
C. would charge the discrepancy for changing the tickets
D. offered to change the tickets without any extra cost
B. the ticketing mistake
C. the Olympic Games
D. the additional cost
B. 10,000.
C. 20,000.
D. 30,000.
B. Thousands of ticket holders refused to change their tickets.
C. The men’s 100m final will take place on August 5, 2012.
D. The number of tickets for synchronized swimming is 10,000.
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her house. She already has one tree up in her living room and a nativity scene. But this holiday season,
she would not dare decorate outside.
" It is very disappointing that we can" t celebrate the Christmas holiday the way that we religiously
choose to," says Buonanno.
Her home only has a holiday wreath on the door, since the Doylestown Station Condominium
Association told her the bylaws do not allow colored Christmas lights. Last year, she was fined $400,
$ 10 for each day her lights were up. But she says she was the only one slapped with a fine.
"One of my neighbors that I spoke to a few days ago, who decorates with multicolored lights, says
he never got a letter of warning or a fine. "
Only white, non-blinking lights are allowed outside. And you can only put up a single white, blue, or
orange light in your windows. Neighbors collected 62 signatures to ask the Association board to allow
colored Christmas lights. In response, the Association sent out a survey.
Out of 38 total responses, 19 voted for white lights, 14 voted for colored non-blinking lights, and 5
voted for colored blinking. The board said the vote was 19-14 against colored lights, interpreting the 5
votes as a separate category.
"As long as it" s tasteful," says neighbor Marc Udell, "let the community do what the community is
going to do. "
No one answered the door at the Association president* s house. Some neighbors say they like the
look of white lights.
"Some colored lights are pretty and they have their place in neighborhoods, but you never really know
how far people are going to go with them," says Jeff Edwards.
It will be a holiday of white lights for Buonanno and her neighborhood. She says for now she will
miss her colored lights and the holiday cheer they brought to her home.
B. sell the colored lights out
C. leave the Christmas tree out
D. change all the attractive lights
B. she was the only resident punished with a fine
C. she was the only resident full of strange ideas
D. she was the only person fooled by neighbors
B. Environment
C. Education
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BEIJING-Worldrenowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China __1_ (attract) toprank
postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.
Oxford made its first __2__ (appear) at the China Scholarship Council"s annual International
Graduate Scholarship Fair, __3__ opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage
excellent Chinese students to consider __4__ Oxford can offer for 5 academic and professional
careers.
"The students came wellprepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance, "said
Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make __6__ two stops
for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.
The University of Cambridge __7 _ (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that
it would continue to invest to train students to be problemsolvers.
__8 _ Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for __9_ best and brightest,
Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation
__10__ competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.
BEIJING, March 9-The central government will require an additional three years of use for official
vehicles for ministers (部长) and governors (政府官员) to reduce the costs of purchasing new cars,
media have reported.
The new rule has been applied among all Party and government departments nationwide, the Beijing
News reported on Tuesday. The new rule has not yet been made public, said Li, a member of the Chinese
People"s Political Consultative Conference National Committee. Under the old rules, the cars used by
ministerlevel officials could be replaced as often as every five years, Li said. These officials will also
continue to use the same cars when they take new posts, he added.
The new rule also reiterated (重申) that officials ranking below ministeror governorlevels should not be
allocated cars. The cars possessed by their departments should be used on demand.
"It violates the rules for lowerranking-even countylevelofficials to be allocated cars," Li said.
Purchases of vehicles for official use have been heavily investigated, as they account for a large
expenditure of public funds every year.
A survey on the Web news www.ifeng.com found 59 percent of respondents believed the new rule
will be difficult to obey because it is related to officials" interests.
Local government departments had stopped approvals for requests for such vehicles and had started
to limit the number of such cars under the new rules, Li said. "The future reform of official vehicle use will
introduce market systems", Li said.
Premier Wen Jiabao said in the annual government work report on Saturday that expenditures on such
vehicles will not increase in 2011 compared with a year ago.
Beijing"s standing deputy mayor Ji Lin last week said the municipal government will release the number
of vehicles for official use in the capital as early as at the end of this month.
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Finance had published a rule regulating the budgets for such vehicles.
| About the rules | Cars for official use should be replaced as often as 1.________ years. The 2.________ of cars to officials ranking below ministeror governorlevels should be banned. |
| The 3.________ of the new rule | To reduce the cost of buying new cars. |
| Reasons for 4.________ the new rule | The buying of vehicles for official use 5.________ for a large expenditure of public funds every year. |
| 6.________ taken and to be taken | Local government departments had started to 7.________ the number of cars for official use. The government will 8.________ public the number of cars for official use. The Ministry of Finance had published a rule 9.________ the budgets for such vehicles. |
| Problem | Obeying the rule is 10.________ with officials" interests. |
| 阅读理解 | |
| BEIJING-Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America"s respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria (疟疾) treatment. The 81yearold was presented with the medical prize by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on September 23, 2011 in New York. Tu, a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, was praised by the jury (评判委员会) for her "drug therapy (治疗) for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world," according to a statement on the foundation"s website. In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate(消灭) malaria, and it was then that she began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria. After detecting (检测) 380 extracts (提取物) made from 2,000 candidate recipes, Tu and her colleagues obtained a pure substance called "Qinghaosu", which became known as artemisinin in 1972. An artemisininbased drug combination is now the standard regimen (养生法) for malaria, and the World Health Organization lists artemisinin and related agents in its catalog of "Essential Medicines", said a statement from the foundation. The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945. Lasker Awards are known as "America"s Nobels" for their knack (熟练技术) of gaining future recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates (得奖者) have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945. | |
| 1．Which of the following statements about Tu Youyou is FALSE? | |
| A．She is the first scientist on the mainland to win America"s respected Lasker Award. B．She is a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing. C．She is the first scientist in the world to win America"s respected Lasker Award. D．She began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria in 1969. | |
| 2．Lasker Award is awarded by _____. | |
| A．New York Foundation B．the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation C．Chinese Medical Sciences D．Albert and Mary | |
| 3．What"s the influence about Tu Youyou"s "drug therapy for malaria"? | |
| A．It has surprised the people in the world. B．It has reduced malaria. C．It applied modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine. D．It has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world. | |
| 4．What"s the main idea of the passage? | |
| A．Tu Youyou won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. B．An American won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. C．Americans founded the Lasker Foundation. D．Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin. | |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| LOS ANGELES-Old people who keep walking a relatively long distance may be less likely to suffer from cognitive(认知的) decline, a new study suggests. "By walking regularly, and maintaining a little bit of moderate physical activity, you can reduce your likelihood of developing Alzheimer"s disease and spare brain tissue," Kirk I．Erickson, the study"s lead author, said.Erickson and his colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh began to establish a link between walking and memory in 1989. According to the report on their study published online Wednesday in Neurology, an official journal of the American Academy of Neurology, researchers tracked the physical activity and cognitive patterns of nearly 300 adults. At the very beginning, all participants, on average 78 years old and about two－thirds being women, were in good cognitive health. The researchers charted how many blocks each person walked in one week. Nine years later, the participants were given a MRI scan to measure their brain size. All of them were deemed to be "cognitively normal." But after four more years, test showed a little more than one third of the participants had developed a mild cognitive impairment or dementia. By correlating cognitive health, brain scans and walking patterns, the research team found that being more physically active appeared to lower the risk of developing cognitive impairment. As to how much walking would help prevent cognitive decline, the researchers suggested that walking about six miles, or 9.6 km, per week appears to protect the brain against shrinking in old age. The researchers said the relationship between walking and gray matter volume appears to apply only to people who regularly walk relatively long distances. The more someone walks, the more gray matter tissue the person will have a decade or more down the road in regions of the brain, namely the hippocampus, the inferior frontal gyrus and the supplementary motor area, that are central to cognition. And among the more physically active participants who had retained more gray matter a decade out, the chances of developing cognitive impairment were cut in half, the study said. | |
| 1. When did the old people tested in the research begin to show difference in cognitive decline? | |
| A. When they were 78 years old. B. When they were 87 years old. C. Between the year 1989 and 1998. D. Between the year 1998 and 2002. | |
| 2. What do we know about the gray matter? | |
| A. The quantity of it has a decisive influence on the cognitive ability. B. It"s something in the muscle that develops from physical activity. C. It"s a brain disease that will damage the cognitive ability. D. It"s some brain matter that can cure brain diseases. | |
| 3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "shrinking" in Para.9? | |
| A. worrying. B. weakening. C. widening. D. wandering. | |
| 4. What is TRUE about the research? | |
| A. Men and women differ in the decline of cognition. B. The research subjects were required to walk blocks per week. C. The findings suggest the more walking, the better health. D. There were about 200 women involved in the research. |