Olympic volunteer hopefuls from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan stand a better chance if they are bilingual．Priority will be given to applicants who have“special skills”and can speak languages other than English and Chinese．
“We warmly welcome those people from above-mentioned areas, who are qualified for being a volunteer, to put in an application,”Liu Jian, office director of Beijing Olympic Games Volunteer Work Coordination Group, said．
Liu made the remarks yesterday at a press conference to officially launch(开始)the volunteer recruitment(招募)drive from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries for the 2008 Games．
Volunteer requirements can be found at the official website www.beijing2008.cn, or by calling the hotline on 8610-12308．
Recruitment for volunteers in Beijing began on August 28, 2006．In areas outside the capital, it began on January 19 this year．
To date, more than 400,000 people have sent in applications, more than 270,000 of them from Beijing．
“According to the latest application results, we still need a lot of volunteers with foreign language skills other than English,”Li Binghua, executive vice –president of BOCOG, said．
Of course, these applicants must be able to communicate with other people in Chinese Putonghua, he said．
Volunteers will mainly be needed in eight fields depending on their skills including VIP guest liaison and language services, driving, media services, competition organization, medical treatment, and security examination．
The application websites are www.hab.gov.hk(Hong Kong), www.sport.gov.mo(Macao), www.bjtx.org(Taiwan), www.bjqb.gov.cn(overseas Chinese), and www.ebeijing.gov.cn(foreigners)．
Applications in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries will conclude by the end of March 2008．BOCOG will finalize the recruitment drive by the end of May 2008．
(1)
Which of the following is most likely to be a volunteer according to what Li Binghua says?
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A．
Sun Hong, a habitant in Beijing, who is studying in Beijing University．
B．
Michael, a French young man with fluent Chinese, who is now working in China．
C．
Ma Zuwang, from Hong Kong, who has got a doctor degree on languages．
D．
John Wang, an American-Chinese, whose major in college is sports．
(2)
Volunteers will offer a variety of help in the Olympic Games except ________．
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A．
cheering for the players
B．
driving the players to the playground
C．
dealing with injuries in the game
D．
serving as a guide
(3)
We can infer from the passage that ________．
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A．
The recruitment is now found in many difficulties．
B．
It is by no means an easy thing to meet the requirements of a volunteer．
C．
People from all over the world have the chance of being a volunteer．
D．
More than half of the volunteers will come from Beijing．
(4)
If you want to be a volunteer, you may send your application to ________．
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A．
www.sport.gov.mo
B．
www.ebeijing.gov.cn
C．
www.beijing2008.cn
D．
www.bjqb.gov.cn
(5)
Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
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A．
People can get the requirements of the volunteers on the internet or by telephoning．
B．
All the applicants are supposed to speak Chinese freely．
C．
Recruitment for volunteers in Beijing began earlier than that in Hong Kong．
D．
All the applications must be sent in by the end of May 2008．
If winning is everything, British anthropologists(人类学家)have some advice：Wear red．Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors were more 1 to win their contests 2 they wore red uniforms or red body armor．
“Across a 3 of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently associated with a higher probability of winning,”report Russell A．Hill and Robert A．Barton of the University of Durham in England．Their findings are in Thursday's 4 of the journal Nature．
Red is 5 with emotions．When people get 6 , their faces turn red．It’s also a reason why stop signs are red．
7 , the color’s effect may also subconsciously threaten opponents 8 athletic contests, especially when the athletes are 9 in skill and strength, the researchers suggest．
In their 10 , the anthropologists analyzed the results of four combat sports at the summer games：boxing, tae kwon do, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling．
In those 11 , the athletes were randomly(随机地)assigned 12 protective gear and other sportswear．Athletes 13 red gear won more often in 16 of 21 rounds of competition in all four events．
The effect was the same 14 weight classes, too：19 of 29 classes had more red winners, and only four rounds had more blue winners．The red 15 might also come into play in team sports．
The anthropologists analyzed the Euro 2004 International Soccer Tournament, 16 which teams wore jerseys of different colors in different matches．They found that five teams 17 more goals and won more often when they wore shirts that were predominantly red, as 18 to blue or white jerseys．
Scientists don't exactly know how wearing red might give athletes a(n) 19 ．But the color delivers hidden messages of vigor and 20 ．
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