Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
　　Good news: Olympic chiefs visit London. Bad news: they’ll be traveling by Tube
　　It’s crunch week for London’s bid to host the 2012 Games
　　BY ANDREW JOHNSON and JONATHAN THOMPSON
　　Commuters waiting at Stratford in East London, Which is the planned site of the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium
　　Senior government ministers and British sporting heroes will be on hand to extol the capital’s virtues when the 12-member International Olympic Committee (IOC) team visits this week to assess the London 2012 bid.
　　Although much of their four-day visit is expected to be spent in the exclusive Four Seasons Hotel in Canary Wharf grilling bid organisers in question and answer sessions, the evaluation commission will spend one day visiting London’s proposed venues—and will take a trip on the Tube. It could prove a costly journey.
　　London 2012 organisers, who have spent up to ￡20m on the project, have pencilled in trips to the proposed sites, including the planned stadium at Stratford, the Millennium Dome at Greenwich and the ExCel centre in Docklands.
　　However, the commission can insist on being taken anywhere, including the new Wembley stadium, which will host the football, or to the archery venue at Lord’s, or even to Wimbledon or
Hackney.
　　Earlier this month, the Madrid bid suffered a setback over lack of accommodations, which was criticised by IOC members. Will transport prove Londons’ Achilles’ heel? On Friday The Independent on Sundaysent four reporters on various journeys across London to put the transport infrastructure to the test.
　　Questions:
　　1．How many people can the London’s planned Olympic stadium hold?
　　2．How many International Olympic Committee (IOC) members will visit London and where are they going to have the question and answer sessions?
　　3．What does “tube” mean in American English?
　　4．Why was Madrid criticised by International Olympic Committee members?
　　5．What is the problem which the authors worried about London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games?

发布日期：2021-10-05

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