【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] 27-28
Christine Lagarde was the first woman to become the finance minister of a G7 country and will now resign her post within the French government to become the first woman to head the IMF.
But such is the respect with which this former lawyer is held internationally it has come with as little surprise. She's been the point on many European financial issues in recent years, she is a fluent English speaker and once she had picked up the endorsements of India and China, her confirmation as the new IMF chief was a formality.

[解析] 原文中有“Christine Laggard was the first woman to become the finance minister of a G7 country and will now resign her post within the French government to become the first woman to head the IMF．”因此选A。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 原文中有“But such is the respect with which this former lawyer is held internationally it has come with as little surprise．”因此选B。