3月8日，北京奧組委正式開通第29屆奧林匹克運動會官方票務網站，接受國內公眾用戶注冊。從奧運門票價格表中我們可以看到，除了開、閉幕式外，其他大部分比賽都是低價票，其中包括棒球、拳擊等在內的多項比賽的最低價門票僅為30元。開幕式、閉幕式最低票價分別為200元和150元。

Tickets for the 2008 Olympics will go on sale next month, but the buyers of tickets for some hot events will have to be decided byrandom draw, organizers said.

Chinese nationals and foreigners residing in China can now register tobook tickets onlineafter the Beijing Organizing Committee (BOCOG) launched the official ticketing website (www.tickets.beijing2008.cn/) on Thursday.

BOCOG released full details on ticket prices on the site and said ticket sales would be in three phases starting from April 2007.

The most expensive tickets will be for the opening ceremony on the evening of August 8, which will cost 5,000 yuan (US$646). The cheapest tickets for that event will be 200 yuan (US$25.8).

Ticket prices for theclosing ceremonywill range from 150 yuan (US$19.4) to 3,000 yuan (US$388).

Tickets to competition events will cost from 30-1,000 yuan (US$3.88-129.3), with the men's basketball final the highest priced.

BOCOG said last year that more than seven million tickets will be available for sale, with at least half to go to local fans and 58 percent of all the tickets would cost 100 yuan (US$12.75) or less, in line with efforts to make the Olympics affordable to average Chinese citizens.

（CRIENGLISH.com） 

Vocabulary:    

random draw: 抽簽

book tickets online:網上購票

closing ceremony:閉幕式

（英語點津陳蓓編輯）