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Around 200 people who thought their only experience of the London 2012 Olympic Games would
be minor heats of synchronized swimming （花样游泳） 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 （差额） 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 and that 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.
1. 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
2. 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
3. The underlined word “it” (Paragraph 3 ) refers to ____.
A. Locog
B. the ticketing mistake
C. the Olympic Games
D. the additional cost
4. How many ticket holders will have to change their tickets?
A. 200.
B. 10,000.
C. 20,000.
D. 30,000.
5. 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.
