3月8日，北京奥组委正式开通第29届奥林匹克运动会官方票务网站，接受国内公众用户注册。从奥运门票价格表中我们可以看到，除了开、闭幕式外，其他大部分比赛都是低价票，其中包括棒球、拳击等在内的多项比赛的最低价门票仅为30元。开幕式、闭幕式最低票价分别为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: 抽签

book tickets online:网上购票

closing ceremony:闭幕式

（英语点津陈蓓编辑）