Unit 6 The Spirit of Sports Lesson 24 Exercise 1.2 On July 13, 2001 at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Moscow, Beijing was chosen to be the host city for the 2008 Olympics. When the results came out, Beijing's streets were crowded with thousands of people celebrating the success. Beijing's slogan for the 2008 Olympics is "New Beijing,Great Olympics." Beijing had promised to host a "Green Olympics," a "Hi-tech Olympics," and a " people's Olympics." The city of Beijing had the idea of hosting the Olympic Games several years before 2001. The Chinese were fully prepared and confident in the success. The people of Beijing said, "Give Beijing a chance and we will show you how much more we can do for the Olympic movement." The IOC was also confident that Beijing could make the 2008 Olympics a great success. More importantly, the IOC believed that the Beijing Olympics would have special influence on China and on sports. Four other cities competed for hosting the Olympics besides Beijing. They were Istanbul, Turkey; Osaka, Japan; Paris, France ; and Toronto, Canada. Interestingly, of all the five cities, Beijing had more support from citizens than other cities. A survey showed that 94.9 percent of the people of Beijing wanted to have the Olympic Games in theircity. In contrast ,surveys in Paris and in Toronto showed only about two thirds of the people supported the idea of having the Olympic Games in their city. Exercise 2.2 The 29th Olympic will be held in Beijing in 2008. Beijing citizens are excited and they are talking a lot about what they should do for the Olympic Games. Here our reporter joins a group of middle school students in their regular English activity "Meet in English Corner." Their topic for today is "Let's all help to make the Beijing Olympics a great success." Let's listen to their ideas and suggestions. Hello, everyone. Glad to see you again. Today we are going to talk about what we can do to make the 29th Olympics more successful. What are your ideas? Please, Zhu Jianming. The Organizing Committee must be very busy. Shall we volunteer to help our local organizing committee? They must need a lot of people to share the work. What's your suggestion, Liu Li? Why don't we look for information on the Internet about the Olympics? So we can work together with our local community to have more people understand the spirit of the Olympics. That's a good idea. Let's see if there are more ideas? I think English is very important for such a big international Games. We should help more people to learn and speak English. I agree with you. English will be more important in 2008. What's your name please? Zhao Xinping. Oh, we have a new friend today. Would you please introduce yourself and say something? My name is Xu Wei. I think we can do something to make our city more beautiful. Let's go and visit the local community and see if we can do something to help improve the environment. That's great. We want to have a "Green Olympics", right?
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