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【单选题】European farm ministers have ended three weeks of negotiations with a deal which they claim represents genuine reform of the common agricultural policyCAP). Will it be enough to kick off theDoha 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 meanEuropean prices eventually falling towards the world market level.Cut-ting 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.
TheCAP is hugely unpopular around the worl
D、It subsidizesEuropean 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 lucrativeEuropean market. Farm trade is also a key feature of theDoha round of trade talks, launched under the auspices 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 subsidiesEurope pays its farmers. SeveralDoha deadlines have already been missed because of theEU’s intransigence, and the survival of the talks will be at risk if no progress is made by September, when the world’s trade ministers meet inCancun, 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 for 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 1et-outs are potentially damaging forEurope’s negotiators in theDoha roun
D、They could significantly reduce the cost savings that the reforms might otherwise generate and, in turn, keepEuropean expenditure on farm support unacceptably high by world standards. Mote generally, the escape clauses could undermine the reforms by encouraging the suspicion that the new package will not deliver the changes that its supporters claimClose analysis of what is inevitably a very complicated package might confirm the sceptics’ fears.
What is the passage mainly about
A、
A、promising new deal.
B．Doha world trade negotiations.
C．World’s anger againstEurope.

D、Doomed reforms ofCAP.

网考网参考答案：D
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[解析] 主旨题。文章第一段点出全文话题：欧洲农业补贴政策的变革。下文又对协议的成功感到灰心。综合可知答案应为[D](注定要失败的CAP变革)。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>