7 `* L8 w* q+ L* x 北京的奥运场馆将使用太阳能电池板，因此北京奥运会消耗的能源将比2000年悉尼奥运会消耗的能源要少得多。北京的官员还说，他们从2002年以来已经种植了将近2亿棵树。另外，中国的奥运官员们希望控制雨水以便为户外赛事保持干燥的环境。 0 [' S. l3 D! K _
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除了消灭云彩，中国人还将大量采用各种技术以便给来访者留下深刻印象。运动员不必在奥运村里携带钥匙：门上的摄像头将同数字识别扫描器相连接，因此他们只要露出他们的脸庞，房间的门就会打开。 * i9 H" \' a. }. I1 p+ X+ Y) c; c2 F, ~0 @
一名政府官员说，北京为明年所做的准备工作中最艰巨的任务可能是教导它的公民变得更礼貌。 6 o3 W7 ]5 o/ B8 ]( t- I D ^- x" t7 I# g0 t5 h: B1 ]2 Y2 ^
北京希望出租车司机学习一些英语。45岁的出租车司机马俊金（音译）说：“如果我不能通过英语测试，我可能会失去工作。” 6 r6 t& d. h f0 L2 `! R * ~5 q2 B: S! B2 X# } 奥运会组织者还希望打破中国人的一些习惯，至少在奥运会召开的两周中能够如此。新华社报道说，北京已指定每月的11日作为“排队日”，鼓励北京居民在这一天保持克制，幷在等待接受服务时排好队。（作者：卡勒姆·麦克劳德 保罗·怀斯曼）# Z5 L# ^. c# Z- m* U) j/ j
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Cars travel on a highway amid thick smoke and haze in Beijing on July 17. Authorities will order 1 million cars off Beijing's gridlocked streets for two weeks this month to test a plan to cut traffic and auto emissions during the Games. Organizers also plan to run 50 electric buses to transport Olympic officials and athletes, and last year Beijing removed 15,000 old taxis and 3,000 buses from the city to try to ease pollution and traffic. 6 Q: A/ t# Z* \5 t ' N0 F L) Y0 S7 K0 x; E) `% R% s" ZBEIJING — They are evicting tenants to make room for visitors, shutting down factories to reduce pollution, plotting to control the weather, staging rallies to teach English and ordering Beijing's brusque citizens to mind their manners. - f @( S" U% IWhatever it takes, the organizers of the Beijing Olympics are determined to put on the grandest Games ever a year from now — and make them a symbol of the communist nation's arrival as a global economic power. Even the time and date of the opening ceremony — 8:08 p.m., Aug. 8, 2008 — were chosen to try to ensure success, eight being a lucky number in China. # T0 J/ t+ p- p0 d, m v$ tA series of recent scandals involving contaminated food and consumer goods produced in China has only heightened the urgency for Beijing to put on a good face for the more than 10,000 athletes and 550,000 visitors expected here next summer. In its zeal to do so, China will dole out a record $40 billion on stadiums and airport and subway improvements, more than twice what Greece spent on the Athens Olympics in 2004.& @* {* U( l5 f% j2 z H
7 n4 ^; e8 b4 A$ ^0 e 7 C; s) h. p8 E3 F) Q* Y2 dLocal singers perform "We Are Ready," composed for the 2008 Olympic Games at the song's release ceremony in Beijing on Aug. 4. The Chinese capital is gearing up to celebrate the one-year countdown to the opening ceremony on Aug. 8.
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