2012山东省各地高三一模英语分类汇编10阅读理解(四).docVIP

专题三 阅读理解(十) 【山东省日照市2012届高三第一次模拟考试】 D The first-ever meeting of G-20 foreign ministers will discuss pressing global issues including governance, trans-national crime, green growth, climate change and food security, US officials have said. Organised by Mexican Foreign Minister, Ms Patricia Espinosa, in the Mexican resort town of Los Cabos, the meeting is to be attended by among others, the US Secretary of State, Ms Hillary Clinton, German Foreign Minister, Mr Guido Westerwelle, and European Union foreign policy chief, Ms Catherine Ashton. Several other G-20 countries including France, China, Brazil and India will be represented at a lower level. Mexico is the current chair of the G-20 countries and the meeting will be hosted on June 18-19. A senior state department official said that the meeting is informal so it will not result in any formal statements. This meeting reflects, in many ways, the evolution of the G-20 since the first summit (峰会) of Washington in the fall of 2008, which was designed to deal with the global financial crisis, the official said. This is going to focus on broad non-financial global issues, some of which have been discussed by G-20 leaders in the past, but some of which are new to the G-20 process or at least have not been emphasized to any great degree, including some broad economic governance issues, some environmental issues, development policy, and green growth, the official said. During her meetings, Ms Clinton will be emphasizing some themes that are included in the broad G-20 rights. Although, she will not be going to get into the details of the G-20 financial part of the process, she will call for an open, free, transparent, and fair global economic system. Ms Clinton will address things like anti-competitive government practices or interference, which include the ways in which governments artificially distort (歪曲) markets or create uneven e