北京奧運大廈四層會議室里，四個七歲的天津小朋友用稚嫩的童聲唱響《我的2008》。這支來自天津的“小樂隊”在這里向北京奧運歌曲征集評選活動辦公室，提交了自己演唱的這首兒童奧運歌曲，并以這種特別的方式迎接六一兒童節的到來。

The impressive performance.

Four 7-year-old kids from Tianjin, a co-host city of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, sang "My 2008" while playing musical instruments in front of an audience at the Beijing Olympic Tower, headquarters of the Games on Thursday.

Zhang Tiehan, Jin Shenghao, Li Bochen and Guo Xinyue, three boys and one girl, and all fresh elementary school pupils, became the youngest members of an electrophonic band in China. As they are all going to be eight years old in 2008, they decided to add an eight to form the "2008" band, for life-time memory.

"I want to run as fast as Liu Xiang, I want to be as skillful as Chinese ping-pong champions…" The lyrics the children sang and their skill in playing guitar, bass guitar as well asshelf drumin a free and confident style were impressive.

After submitting the musical work to the office of the campaign to solicit songs for the Beijing Olympics, the children said theywere longing toperform at the Olympics opening ceremony to boost the athletes' spirit.

The song was created in 2006. When posted online, it was well received with up to 10 million page views, said teacher Li Hongyu, adding: "The kids chose today to give a performance not only to express their wish to participate in the Olympics, but also their joy ahead of Children's Day.

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) launched a five-year project to seek tunes from amateur and professional composers in April 2003. The campaign has received a wide response and the number of submissions in 2007 has surpassed that of the three previous years, according to the campaign office.


Vocabulary:

shelf drum：架子鼓

be longing to：渴望

（實習生江巍  英語點津boeybb編輯）

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