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It wasn’t all hard work at the G8 summit of the world’s most powerful leaders. There was good food, lots of glad-handing. If the
It wasn’t all hard work at the G8 summit of the world’s most powerful leaders. There was good food, lots of glad-handing. If the
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2010-05-25
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问题
It wasn’t all hard work at the G8 summit of the world’s most powerful leaders. There was good food, lots of glad-handing. If there’s one thing you can say about the French, it’s that they know how to put on a good lunch. French President Jacques Chirac offered his colleagues a lunch Monday that featured specialties from the Haute Savoie region of southeastern France.
The assembled heads of state or government from Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States joined Chirac for crayfish, char — lake trout — from the nearby Lake Geneva, pigeon accompanied by new potatoes, assorted cheeses and a soft and creamy cake. The wine, Roussette de Savoie, was a regional white.
The meal was prepared by a culinary school in Thonon, several kilometers from the summit site.
Afterwards the leaders posed for pictures with the young chefs.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was a late arrival at the summit after facing critics in his Social Democrats at a special party congress in Berlin that eventually swallowed his controversial social and economic reforms.
Schroeder arrived half a day after the first leaders, but was made to feel welcome by his buddy and host, French President Jacques Chirac.
Chirac congratulated him on getting his reforms adopted. At which point, everyone clapped. Including US President George W. Bush, whose relations with Schroeder haven’t been rosy since they fell out over Iraq. Bush also shook Schroeder’s hand, German sources said.
Time waits for no man, so the expression goes, not even if your name is Olusegun Obasanjo, you’re president of Nigeria and you’ve got a plane waiting for you at Geneva airport.
After dinner-table talks that obviously ended well past the dessert stage, the leader of Africa’s most populous nation apologized for keeping reporters waiting, then again for cutting the press conference short.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have to take leave of you," he said, impeccably polite as ever. "First of ail the airport has to close and if we don’t leave we will not be able to take off."
Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin wandered onto the lawn. There they divested themselves of their jackets for 30 minutes of relaxed talks, before Putin donned his jacket again and returned to the hotel for his turn in the comfortable armchair next to Chirac.
Bush left the summit early, but the French hosts were keen not to let his departure look like an embarrassing politics of the empty chair.
As soon as he set off for the Middle East after a working morning session, his chair at the round-table talks was swiftly whisked away.
The US leader had been sitting in the front row, sandwiched between Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Why did the leaders take pictures with the chefs?
选项
A、Because they enjoyed food and wanted to show their satisfaction.
B、Because young as the chefs were, they cooked good food.
C、Because they wanted to tell the chefs they were friendly.
D、Because the young chefs asked them to do so.
答案
A
解析
原文第二段详细地描写了为这些领导人提供的精美食物。正是由于法国东道主的热情款待,这些领导对此感到非常满意,因此和厨师们合影以表达这种心情,因此答案为A 。
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