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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 text, why did she mean when Anne Grete Holmsgaard said "we are losing ground"?
选项 A、Denmark slows down its green pace while others are coming from behind.
B、The Dane government has slashed subsidies on renewable energy.
C、The possibility that Socialist People’s Party is failing in the ruling party again is lowering.
D、Denmark has been pressured to do more to meet its environmental commitments.
答案A
解析 属事实细节题。选项B是丹麦绿色产业退步的一个原因，并不能解释该句话的意思，故选项B错误。选项C和选项D利用原文部分关键词汇进行无关干扰，与该句话不相关，故C项和D项错误。文章的第十段第一句话是对这句话最好的释义，而选项A恰好表达了同样的意思，故选项A符合题意。
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