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Around 200 people who thought their only experience of the London 2012 Olympic Games would 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 C #FormatImgID_0#ommittee(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 saining 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.[来源:Zxxk.Com]

Thousands of ticket holders have already struck lucky, changing to tickets for major events includi #FormatImgID_1#ng 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.

56. As a result of the ticketing mistake, about 200 people ____.

A. will luckily be able to watch the men’s 100m final

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

57. In order to solve the problem, the Locog ____.

A. required the holders to return the tickets

B. #FormatImgID_2#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

58. The underlined word “it” (Paragraph 3 ) refers to ____.

A. Locog                                             B. the ticketing mistake

C. the Olympic Games                             D. the additional cost

59. How many ticket holders will have to change their tickets?

A. 200.               B. 10,000.         C. 20,000.           D. 30,000 #FormatImgID_3#.

60. Which of the following is true according to the text?

A. The synchronized swimming is the hottest of the Olympics.

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.

B

The summer has seen a series of marine disputes involving China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan and #FormatImgID_4#the Philippines. This week there were more anti-Japanese riots in cities across China because of a dispute over a group of uninhabited islands known to the Japanese as the Senkakus and to the Chinese as the Diaoyu Islands. One Chinese newspaper has helpfully suggested skipping (跳过)the pointless diplomacy(外交) and moving straight to the main #FormatImgID_5#course by serving up Japan with an atom bomb.    The government in Beijing is trying to play down the dispute, aware of the economic interests in keeping the peace. China is re-emerging after what it sees as 150 years of humiliation, surrounded by anxious neighbours, many of them allied to America. In that context, disputes about clumps of rockcould become very significant.

Whatever the legality of Japan’s claim to the islands, its roots lie in empire(帝国)-building. China’s leaders now face sharp criticism if they do not fight their country’s corner. A recent poll suggested that over half of China’s citizens thought the next few years would see a “military dispute” wi #FormatImgID_6#th Japan.

The islands matter, therefore, less because of fishing, oil or gas than as counters in the high-stakes game for Asia’s future. Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines fear that if they give in, China will sense weakness and prepare the next demand. China fears that if it fails to press its case, America and others will conclude that they are free to scheme against it.

Asia’s inability to deal with the islands raises doubts about how it would cope with a genuine crisis, on the Korean peninsula, say, or across the Strait of Taiwan. And the tendency for the slightest quarrel to turn into a full-blown conflict presents problems for America, which both aims to reassure China that it welcomes its rise, and also uses the threat of military force to guarantee that the Pacific is worthy of the name.

61. Where is this news review most probably from?

A. China.       B. Japan.     C. The USA.    D. Europe.

62. According to a Chinese newspaper, the best way to deal with the dispute is__________.

A. holding diplomatic talks with the Japanese

B. moving the islands to the mainland of China

C. declaring war on Japan without a moment’s delay

D. turning to other countries such as the US for help

63. The most important reason for the dispute about the Diaoyu Islands is that________.

A. the scenery there is so beautiful

B. the natural resources are so rich

C. fish are abundant in the waters

D. they greatly affect Asia’s future