1、专业英语八级写作-41及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、BWRITING/B(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.The Kingdom of Wind Power: Denmark（分数：100.00）_专业英语八级写作-41答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、BWRITING/B(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.The Kingdom of Wind Power: Denmark（分数：100.00）_正确答案：(If you want to know why Denmark is the worlds leader in wind powe
2、r, start with a three-hour car trip from the capital Copenhagenmind the bicycliststo the small town of Lem on the far west coast of Jutland. Youll feel it as you cross the 6.8 km-long Great Belt Bridge: Denmarks bountiful wind, so fierce even on a calm summers day that it threatens to shove your car
3、 into the waves below. But wind itself is only part of the reason. In Lem, workers in factories the size of aircraft hangars build the wind turbines sold by Vestas, the Danish company that has emerged as the industrys top manufacturer around the globe. The work is both gross and fine; employees weld
4、 together massive curved sheets of steel to make central shafts as tall as a 14-story building, and assemble engine housings(机器外罩) that hold some 18,000 separate parts. Most impressive are the turbines blades, which scoop the wind with each sweeping revolution. As smooth as an Olympic swimsuit and b
5、oned to aerodynamic perfection, each blade weighs in at 7,000kg, and theyre what help make Vestas turbines the best in the world. The blade is where the secret is, says Erik Therkelsen, a Vestas executive. If we can make a turbine, its sold. But technology, like the wind itself, is just one more par
6、t of the reason for Denmarks dominance. In the end, it happened because Denmark had the political and public will to decide that it wanted to be a leaderand to follow through. Beginning in 1979, the government began a determined programme of subsidies and loan guarantees to build up its wind industr
7、y. Copenhagen covered 30% of investment costs, and guaranteed loans for large turbine exporters such as Vestas. It also mandated that utilities purchase wind energy at a preferential pricethus guaranteeing investors a customer base. Energy taxes were channeled into research centres, where engineers
8、crafted designs that would eventually produce cutting-edge giants like Vestas 3 megawatt(MW) V90 turbine. As a result, wind turbines now dot Denmark. The country gets more than 19% of its electricity from the breeze(Spain and Portugal, the next highest countries, get about 10%) and Danish companies
9、control one-third of the global wind market, earning billions in exports and creating a national champion from scratch. They were out early in driving renewables, and that gave them the chance to be a technology leader and a job-creation leader, says Jake Schmidt, international climate policy direct
10、or for the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council. They have always been one or two steps ahead of others. The challenge now for Denmark is to help the rest of the world catch up. Beyond wind, the country(pop. 5.5 million) is a world leader in energy efficiency, getting more GDP per w
11、att than any other member of the E.U. Carbon emissions are down 13.3% from 1990 levels and total energy consumption has barely moved, even as Denmarks economy continued to grow at a healthy clip. With Copenhagen set to host all-important U.N. climate change talks in Decemberwhere the world hopes for
12、 a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocoland the global recession beginning to hit environmental plans in capitals everywhere, Denmarks example couldnt be more timely. Well try to make Denmark a showroom, says Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. You can reduce energy use and carbon emissions, an
13、d achieve economic growth. Its tempting to assume that Denmark is innately green, with the kind of Scandinavian good conscience that has made it such a pleasant global citizen since, oh, the whole Viking thing. But the countrys policies were actually born from a different emotion, one now in common
14、currency: fear. When the 1973 oil crisis hit, 90% of Denmarks energy came from petroleum, almost all of it imported. Buffeted by the same supply shocks that hit the rest of the developed world, Denmark launched a rapid drive for energy conservation, to the point of introducing car-free Sundays and a
15、sking businesses to switch off lights during closing hours. Eventually the Mideast oil started flowing again, and the Danes themselves began enjoying the benefits of the petroleum and natural gas in their slice of the North Sea. It was enough to make them more than self-sufficient. But unlike most o
16、ther countries, Denmark never forgot the lessons of 1973, and kept driving for greater energy efficiency and a more diversified energy supply. The Danish parliament raised taxes on energy to encourage conservation and established subsidies and standards to support more efficient buildings. It all st
17、arted out without any regard for the climate or the environment. says Svend Auken, the former head of Denmarks opposition Social Democrat Party and the architect of the countrys environmental policies in the 1990s. But today theres a consensus that we need to build renewable power. To the rest of the world, Denmark has the power of its example, showing that you can stay rich and grow green at the same time. Denmark has proven that acting on climate can be a positive experience, not just painful, says NRDCs Schmidt. The real pain could come from failing to follow in their footsteps.)解析：
