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If a heavy reliance on fossil fuels makes a country a climate ogre, then Denmark—with its thousands of wind turbines sprinkled o

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问题     If a heavy reliance on fossil fuels makes a country a climate ogre, then Denmark—with its thousands of wind turbines sprinkled on the coastlines and at sea—is living a happy fairy tale.
    Viewed from the United States or Asia, Denmark is an environmental role model. The country is "what a global warming solution looks like," wrote Frances Beinecke, the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a letter to the group last autumn. About one-fifth of the country’s electricity comes from wind, which wind experts say is the highest proportion of any country.
    But a closer look shows that Denmark is a far cry from a clean-energy paradise.
    The building of wind turbines has virtually ground to a halt since subsidies were cut back. Meanwhile, compared with others in the European Union, Danes remain above-average emitters of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. For all its wind turbines, a large proportion of the rest of Denmark’s power is generated by plants that burn imported coal.
    "We are losing ground," said Anne Grete Holmsgaard, the energy spokeswoman for the opposition Socialist People’s Party in Denmark. "It’s terrible, actually, that we’re not that green as we should be."
    The Danish experience shows how difficult it can be for countries grown rich on fossil fuels to switch to renewable energy sources like wind power. Among the hurdles are fluctuating political priorities, the high cost of putting new turbines offshore, concern about public acceptance of large wind turbines and the volatility of the wind itself.
    But countries like Denmark are far ahead of the United States in overall use of green electricity, mostly because of government support.
    "Europe has really led the way," said Alex Klein, a senior analyst with Emerging Energy Research, a consulting firm with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Very progressive policies by the Danes and Germany mean the wind industry was able to evolve and build up scale."
    Some parts of western Denmark derive 100 percent of their peak needs from wind if the breeze is up. Germany and Spain generate more power in absolute terms, but in those countries wind still accounts for a far smaller proportion of the electricity generated. The average for all 27 European Union countries is 3 percent.
    But the Germans and the Spanish are catching up as Denmark slows down. Of the thousands of megawatts of wind power added last year around the world, only 8 megawatts were installed in Denmark.
    If higher subsidies had been maintained, Denmark could now be generating close to one-third — rather than one-fifth—of its electricity from windmills.
According to the author, Denmark would most probably do the following actions except _____in the future.
选项 A、provide more financial support for the green development
B、fashion the public into a environment-minded sentiment
C、gradually eradicate its dependence on power generated by burning coals
D、offer advices on switching to renewable sources to other governments
答案C
解析 属信息推断题。从文章第十段可以看出，作者呼吁政府为绿色能源的发展提供更强有力的财政支持，故选项A符合文意。作者在文章中夸赞丹麦是个环保国家，所以丹麦政府一定会致力于在民众之中宣传环保思想，选项B符合文意。丹麦在风力能源的开发上处于世界前列，我们也能从文章中推测出，丹麦政府一定乐于分享发展绿色能源的经验，故选项D符合文意。作者在文章的第四段第三句中提到了丹麦的火力发电，但选项C过于绝对，让丹麦完全根除火力发电不现实，故本题应选C项。
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