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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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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 were people sensitive about whether Bush clapped or shook hands with Schroeder?
选项
A、Because the two are both leaders of a nation.
B、Because people were curious about national leaders.
C、Because Schroeder was against Bush.
D、Because such behaviors indicate the relation between the two nations.
答案
D
解析
定位于原文第七段的最后两句,要特别注意其中一个细节:在此之前,由于美德在伊拉克战争问题上意见相左,其关系一直处于紧张状态。因此,人们才特别关注布什的行为,这里面暗含着一个常识,国家领导人之间的某种行为往往可以显示国家之间的关系,因此答案为D 。
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