Christine Lagarde

     Christine Lagarde, recently the French Finance Minister, has succeeded Dominique Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), following his resignation.

    Poised, chic and a fluent English speaker, she is second only to President Nicolas Sarkozy as France's most recognisable politician on the world stage.

     Ms Lagarde, 55, is the first woman to head the IMF.

     But then throughout her career she has already become familiar with the "first woman to..." tag.

【關鍵詞】

1.   IMF  =  International Monetary Fund  國際貨幣基金組織

2.   resignation [?rez?g?ne???n]辭職

3.   poised [p??zd] 鎮(zhèn)定的

4.   chic [?i:k] 別致的

5.   throughout [θru:?a?t] 遍及