北京奥运会已走近我们

1、北京奥运会已走近我们1奥运主题口号揭晓 The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games have unveiled the slogan One World, One Dream for the 2008 Games on Sunday. BOCOG launched a global search for an Olympic slogan in January this year and received more than 210,000 entries from home and abroad. After sev

2、eral rounds of selection and revision, a slogan each in Chinese and English was picked. New Beijing, Great Olympics was the slogan Beijing used during its Olympic bid. 周日（2005年6月26日），北京奥组委揭晓了2008奥运会的主题口号One World, One Dream “同一个世界同一个梦想”，从而取代了申奥期间的口号New Beijing, Great Olympics“新北京新奥运”。 2北京奥组委8月起招募08奥

3、运志愿者 Beijing Olympic organizers will start in August to recruit volunteers for the 2008 Games. According to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympics (BOCOG), altogether 100,000 volunteers will be needed before and during the 2008 Beijing Games, with 70,000 serving the 2008 Summer Olymp

4、ics and 30,000 for the Paralympics. Li Shixin, a BOCOG official in charge of the volunteers recruitment work, said that BOCOG will need to map out detailed procedures for the recruitment work before recruiting the first batch of volunteers in August. People who are interested can submit applications

5、 via the internet, said Li. The Beijing Olympic Volunteers Program was officially launched last June.3北京奥运门票您买得起！北京奥组委执行副主席蒋效愚8日在北京透露，北京奥运会门票价格将充分考虑中国观众的消费能力。北京奥运会门票总数预计约有900万张左右，届时会通过媒体对北京奥运会门票方案进行充分的宣传推荐，方便大家购买。 Tickets to the Beijing Olympic Games will be affordable to ordinary people. Jiang Xiao

6、yu, deputy executive president of the Organizing Committee, BOCOG, made the pledge Tuesday during an online exchange with internet users. He says the tickets for the Beijing Olympic Games number around nine million. Part of the tickets will be offered to the public through domestic and international

7、 ticket sales agencies. Meanwhile, the torch relay route of the Beijing Games is still in discussion. Jiang says, a plan may be submitted to the International Olympic Committee in December this year. He disclosed that the route will cover all of the countrys provinces, municipalities and autonomous

8、regions, including Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions and Taiwan province. In addition, Jiang says the selection of Olympic mascots is also in the process.4北京奥组委向全球征集08火炬样式 Organizers of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are to launch a global campaign to solicit the design proposals fo

9、r the torch of the Beijing Games. The solicitation starts on December 6, 2005 and ends on February 2, 2006, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) announces today at a press conference held in the Beijing Olympic Media Centre. Our concepts of the torch design are

10、 glory and dream, tradition and modernity, culture and harmony, Zhang Ming, deputy director of BOCOGs Culture and Ceremonies Department, said at the press conference. Design proposals for the Beijing Olympic torch are supposed to artistically interpret the rich connotation of the concepts. Submissio

11、ns are also expected to display the distinguishing features of the Beijing Games, namely Chinese style, cultural splendor and contemporary spirit, and to fully demonstrate the vitality and passion of the torchbearers, according to Zhang. BOCOG also requires that the proposed designs should be origin

12、al and creative, and the torch could be presented with state-of-the-art technology.重点词汇solicit v. 恳求 torch n. 火炬BOCOG （缩写）北京奥组委 connotation n. 含蓄，内涵5北京奥运城市标志等您创意 市规划委7月24日在网站发布公告宣布，北京2008“城市标志”概念性设计国际竞赛活动已经启动并面向全球征集设计创意，这座代表北京的城市标志将安放在北京奥林匹克公园，并将成为奥林匹克运动留给城市的宝贵遗产。At the mention of Beijing, you might

13、 think first of Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. But none of these examples of architecture or historical sites has been officially labelled the landmark of the Chinese capital. Now the Beijing municipal government is inviting ideas for a visible reminder of the historical and cultural heritage of the city and kicking off an International Competition for Conceptual Planning and Design for a Beijing symbol. There are no specific requirements for the form and content of the designs. However, candidates should use the latest technology and include the concept of environme