第一节 短文理解1根据短文内容,判断文后给出的陈述是否正确。认为正确的,选[A](True);认为错误的,选[B](False)。 This is a picture of my family. The old man in the middle is my grandfather. The old woman beside him is my grandmother. This is my father. He is a Chinese teacher in my school. This is my mother. She is a teacher, too. She is an English teacher. The boy is me. I am eleven. I love my parents and my grandparents. They love me, too. This is a picture of mine.
A. [A] True
B. False
European farm ministers have ended three weeks of negotiations with a deal which they claim represents genuine reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP). Will it be enough to kick start the Doha world trade negotiations On the face of it, the deal agreed in the early hours of Thursday June 26th looks promising. Most subsidies linked to specific farm products are, at last, to be broken-- the idea is to replace these with a direct payment to farmers, unconnected to particular products. Support prices for several key products, including milk and butter, are to be cut--that should mean European prices eventually falling towards the world market level. Cutting the link between subsidy and production was the main objective of proposals put forward by Mr. Fischler, which had formed the starting point for the negotiations. The CAP is hugely unpopular around the world. It subsidizes European farmers to such an extent that they can undercut farmers from poor countries, who also face trade barriers that largely exclude them from the potentially lucrative European market. Farm trade is also a key feature of the Doha round of trade talks, launched under the auspices (主办) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001. Developing countries have lined up alongside a number of industrial countries to demand an end to the massive subsidies Europe pays its farmers. Several Doha deadlines have already been missed because of the EU’s intransigence(不让步), and the survival of the talks will be at risk if no progress is made by September. when the world’s trade ministers meet in Cancùn, Mexico. But now even the French seem to have gone along with the deal hammered out in Luxembourg--up to a point, anyway. The package of measures gives the green light to the most eager reformers to move fast to implement the changes within their own countries. But there is an escape clause of sorts for the French and other reform-averse nations. They can delay implementation for up to two years. There is also a suggestion that the reforms might not apply where there is a chance that they would lead to a reduction in land under cultivation. These let-outs are potentially damaging for Europe’s negotiators in the Doha round. They could significantly reduce the cost savings that the reforms might otherwise generate and, in turn, keep European expenditure on farm support unacceptably high by world standards. More generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claim. Close analysis of what is inevitably a very complicated package might confirm the skeptics’ fears. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that ______.
A. farmers from poor countries were put at an advantage by CAP
B. the deal will be a key subject of debate in Doha round of trade talks
C. the deal was probably a result of pressure from other countries
D. the world’s trade ministers will resist the new deal reached recently