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It wasn’t all hard work at the G8 summit of the world’s most powerful leader
It wasn’t all hard work at the G8 summit of the world’s most powerful leader
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2023-11-22
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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 all 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. [br] 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, the]( cooked good food.
C、Because they wanted to tell the chefs they were friendly .
D、Because the young chefs asked them to.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。文章中首先讲到了为各国领导人准备的大餐非常丰富精美,然后提到了午宴的操办单位,最后说各位首脑还和这些年轻的大厨合影留念。有这样的上文可以推断,领导们是因为食物精美,想表示满意和赞许,因此合影。
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