Around 200 people who thought their only experience of the London 2012 Olympic Games would be minor heats of synchronized swimming （花樣游泳） 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 （差額） 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 an 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.

36. 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

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

       A. required the holders to return the tickets

       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

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

       A. Locog                               B. the ticketing mistake

       C. the Olympic Games                            D. the additional cost

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

       A. 200.                                                      B. 10,000.            

       C. 20,000.                                          D. 30,000.

40. 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.

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“When I came to meet her and she took it out of a sandwich bag and she was smoking a cigarette, I almost fainted,” Mirigian says. “ They’ve uncovered a piece of history that few people will ever be able to imagine. That card is history. It’s like unearthing a Mona Lisa or a Picasso.”

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   C.Bernice decided to sell the card for $15.

   D.eBay charged her 20 cents for the card.

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   A. go and bring   B. add up to   C. go down to   D. be sold for

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   A. Bernice is a baseball fan

   B. Bernice is the last person to purchase the rare-baseball card

   C. Bernice unexpectedly became the owner of the rare-baseball card

D. Bernice didn’t realize the value of the card until she put it up for auction

70. What would be the best title for the passage?

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B.The History of the Baseball Card

C.Bernice Gallego---A lucky collector 

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B．introduce a new kind of “green” car

C．show how to save their gasoline when driving a car

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B．China is still young and lacking experience

C．China's new cars are combinations of different green models

D．China has started producing environmentally friendly cars

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D．A specially designed battery motor provides extra power when needed.

4.What is the most important feature of hybrid cars?

A．They are powered by both a rechargeable battery and gasoline.

B．They are much quieter than traditional cars.

C．They only use 99 percent of their power to run up hills.

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