Special Olympics end with records and su
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Special Olympics end with records and superlatives
The 10-day 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games ended here in Shanghai on Thursday, leaving behind a string of superlatives - grandest opening, most delegations, widest media coverage and greatest impact.
The games attracted 7,450 athletes from 164 countries and regions, a record in the 39-year history of the games.
Some 20,000 delegation officials, coaches, celebrities and family members of the Special Olympics athletes also came to Shanghai while more than 40,000 volunteers, most of them students from China and overseas as well, served the games and the intellectually disabled athletes with passion and love.
''Shanghai residents have become more concerned with intellectually disabled people because of the Special Olympics, and the city has become more warm-hearted,'' taxi driver Zhang Weiyu said.
The Special Olympics may have been a watershed for China's mentally disabled.
The games are held every four years. The next will be hosted by Athens, Greece in 2011.
VOCABULARY
Superlatives (adj), words which indicate extremes. For example, hottest, coldest, nicest.
Watershed (n), important moments in time which are a turning point and after which things are not the same as before.
QUIZ
1. What did the Special Olympics World Summer Games leave behind?
(a) Lots of happiness but also disappointment among the athletes who didn't win.
(b) Many new records were set during the games. (c) A watershed.
2. What has happened to the attitudes of Shanghai residents towards intellectually disable people?
(a) Taxi drivers now like intellectually disabled people more.
(b) People now view intellectually disabled people in a more affectionate way.
(c) Shanghai residents have passion for intellectually disabled people.
3. Why have the attitudes of Shanghai residents towards intellectually disabled people, changed?
(a) The games have warmed the hearts of Shanghai residents.
(b) Because of a watershed that may not be related to the games.
(c) Attitudes haven't altered towards intellectually disabled people.
The Answers: 1.(b) 2.(b) 3.(a)
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