An item pool with multimedia data is a finclamental part of our project? Computerized Adaptive Test System of Chinese Proficiency. This p p e r intends to present a design of a multimedia itempoolfrom an object-orientedperspective. It is stressed that 00 approach is especially esfective in modelingand managingcomplex multimediadata. Wefirst introduce our system architecture using 00-layer method Multimedia data organization of the database is investigated and detailed class definition is given next. The object-oriented SQL-like syntax ofthe query language is also simply described.