More than 6,200 volunteer drivers in Beijing for the 2008
Olympic Games will receive English language proficiency test from
next weekend to the end of January.
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The volunteers were picked from eight governmental departments
including the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration
Commission.
They were asked to use weekends to go to four driving training
bases designated by the organizing committee for the Beijing
Olympics to receive tests and evaluation about their English
communication capability.
Students of English major with good academic records from the
renowned Beijing Foreign Studies University will work as testing
instructors.
A training scheme will be made based on the test results,
according to Sunday's Beijing News.
The paper said the volunteers are "quite uneven" in English
proficiency because of an age gap.
(Xinhua News Agency December 11, 2006)