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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.
On which of the fallowings would Alex Klein most probably agree?
选项 A、The new technologies means Denmark should still be a leading user of wind power.
B、America will never overtake Europe as the green energy leader.
C、In fact, Denmark does not facilitate wind power as passionately as before.
D、Global community should provide more support for the green development.
答案D
解析 属信息推断题。从文章第八段亚历克斯·克雷恩的那段话我们可以看出，他对欧洲在绿色能源发展方面的领导地位持肯定态度，他谈到德国和丹麦政府会出台很多进步政策来促进该产业的发展，从中我们能推测出其隐含意思，即希望其他国家也能效仿欧洲各国政府的政策，故选项D正确。选项A和C不合文意，选项B并不能从文中推测出来，故错误。
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