Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

The 24^th Southeast Asian Games was (1) _____ in Thailand from December 6 to December 16, 2007. The Thai Olympic Committee was (2) _____ the event to coincide with the commemoration of 80th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Officials were studying the possibility of doing the events in multiple venues (3) _____ what had been done in Vietnam and the Philippines. It was (4) _____ sixth time Thailand hosted the SEA Games. Thailand hosted the 1959, 1967, 1975, 1985 and 1995 SEA Games.

On 24 February 2006, northeast Thailand's Province authorities met to (5) _____ the 2007 SEA Games schedule, and progress on the province's under-construction US$65 million sports complex. The meeting provided an overview of (6) _____, and ended with reassurances that everything would be ready (7) _____ SEA Games in 2007.

The sports (8) __ included a 5,000-seater indoor stadium and 16 tennis court facilities among other facilities scheduled to be finished on June 2007.

The 2007 SEA Games featured (9) _____ than 400 events in 45 sports. The 24^th edition of the games had the highest number of sporting events in the entire (10) _____ of the SEA Games, more events than the Asian Games and the Olympic Games.

(1) ____________

• A. 
  held
• B. 
  met
• C. 
  seen 
• D. 
  committed