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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D

解析 空格在句子的末尾,空格前的is still表明此处应填入形容词或分词。本句but前面提到太阳能可以弥补对昂贵天然气的部分依赖,这是给英国带来的好处,but表转折,因此后面提到有关全世界使用绿色能源的情况应该是不太好的,故此处应选用具有消极意义的gloomy“令人沮丧的”。
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