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问题     Installations of solar power in the UK are likely to top records this year, and could offset some of the expensive dependence on gas, research has found, but the global outlook for green energy is still【C1】________.
    Money put in clean energy around the world fell to $45.9bn in the third quarter of this year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. While【C2】________in clean technology for the UK has risen, from $1.6bn to $2.6bn, the sector is under threat as rising energy bills have prompted calls for green subsidies to be【C3】________.
    Michael Liebreich, chief executive of BNEF, said this would be a mistake and would not bring down bills: "Gas prices have risen more than 8%—we know that it is gas prices that are pushing up bills. I don’t【C4】________the logic of how that has to do with green subsidies."
    Green energy could help to reduce bills, he said, pointing to some periods in the UK when, thanks to the【C5】________of wind power in particular, wholesale short-term prices had reduced【C6】________. "But that doesn’t get passed through to the consumer, because there is no【C7】________in the market, and so people don’t know about it. And you get this【C8】________of people saying that bill rises are from green subsidies."
    His advice to the government is to【C9】________a clear energy policy that diversifies supply. "What the government needs to do is not to pretend that climate change is not happening, or to pretend that an energy transformation is not under way," he said. "They need to come up with【C10】________policies while controlling costs."
    A) considerably E) scrapped     I) indignation M) nonetheless
    B) follow       F) investment   J) feasible    N) contribution
    C) summoned     G) rupture      K) pertinent   O) distortion
    D) gloomy       H) transparency L) articulate
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答案A

解析 空格在谓语动词had reduced之后,有可能是副词或名词;根据主语wholesale short-term prices,可判断需填入副词,说明短期批发价格下降的幅度。considerably“相当大或多地”符合语境,短期批发价大幅下降,呼应上文help to reduce bills(有助于降低费用)。
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