历年考研英语外刊常考热点：潮汐能源不止是成本问题

　　在考研英语中，想要拿下考研英语高分势必是有些吃力的，听书读写中阅读能力尤为重要，阅读是听说写的基础，没有精读、泛读的大量积累输入，其他能力是无法得到本质上的突破，所以需要大量的真题以及外刊来辅助提升，今天好轻松考研小编准备了历年考研英语外刊常考热点：潮汐能源不止是成本问题，希望对大家有帮助。

　　原文标题：

　　More misbehaving American executives get the boot

　　清洁能源，即绿色能源，是指不排放污染物、能够直接用于生产生活的能源，它包括核能和“可再生能源”。

　　脉络：

　　引入事件（、二段）——分析原因（第三段）——发表评论（第四至六段）。

　　Part 1 原文

　　Ⅰ   The UK government's decision to shutter plans to build the world's first tidal lagoon off Swansea Bay is a hard blow for Wales. The tidal lagoon project, had it gone ahead, was expected to create 2,200 jobs, plus more in the supply chain. These are the kinds of jobs that Wales, so damaged by steel and coal closures, needs. But the business secretary, Greg Clark, has decided the country can't have them because they would be too expensive.

　　Ⅱ  Welsh politicians have reacted with understandable fury to Mr Clark's announcement, which comes almost exactly 12 months after the government  abandoned plans to electrify  the railway from Cardiff to Swansea, and just a day after Member of Parliament (MPs) voted to press ahead with another expensive infrastructure project: a third runway at Heathrow.

　　Ⅲ   There are some rational reasons to approve of this week's decision, while regretting its consequences. No one, including the Tidal Lagoon Power company, denied that the electricity produced off the Welsh coast would have cost more than the cheapest renewables. The most recent government auctions saw offshore wind schemes win contracts at record lows of ￡57.50 per megawatt hour, meaning they are within a few pounds of being subsidy-free.

　　Ⅳ  But cost is not the only consideration. Otherwise, the government would never have gone ahead with the hugely expensive, risky and uncertain Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. Nor would it have cut subsidies for solar power and onshore wind, as it did in 2015. Those decisions — particularly the promise to curb onshore wind, as the Conservatives did in their 2015 manifesto, despite poll after poll  showing that a majority of the public prefers wind and solar to nuclear — were ideological.

　　Ⅴ   In a City speech this March, Mr Clark praised business for putting “evidence before ideology”. It is welcome that the secretary of state says this is his own approach. Too many of his Conservative colleagues remain too strongly attached to fossil fuels, including the prospect of a whole new shale gas industry. As the price of renewables continues to fall, they will surely lose the argument. With Mr Clark in charge, the hope is that onshore wind and solar subsidies may soon return — though too late for UK companies that could have developed and profited from the technology had we not given up on it long before the renewables boom.

　　Ⅵ   Yet the government is planning  more nuclear power stations, including one in Wales. Different rules seem to apply for different technologies. It looks like a Tory government in Westminster snubbed Welsh Labour's pet project. Backers of the tidal project felt  shut out  by ministers. Wave energy lobbyists perhaps don' t have the firepower in Whitehall that others can muster. Mr Clark might have relied on the evidence to make a tough call not to back a new, green technology. But it's hard to shake off the impression that the decision was one rooted in the partisan politics of self-interest.

　　Part 2 长难句语法点拨

　　Welsh politicians have reacted with understandable fury to Mr Clark's announcement, which comes almost exactly 12 months after the government  abandoned plans to electrify  the railway from Cardiff to Swansea, and just a day after Member of Parliament (MPs) voted to press ahead with another expensive infrastructure project: a third runway at Heathrow.

　　本句主干为Welsh politicians have reacted... to Mr Clark's announcement，其中with understandable fury为reacted的状语，说明政客们的态度；which引导的定语从句中，which作从句的主语指代announcement，谓语是不及物动词comes，后接两个由and连接的并列时间状语almost exactly 12 months after...和just a day after...。

　　Part 3 写作句型借鉴

　　XX, had it gone ahead,was expected to do AA(目标), plus more in the MM. 如果XX如期展开，预计实现AA，甚至在MM中能够更进一步。

　　原文例句：The tidal lagoon project, had it gone ahead, was expected to create 2,200 jobs, plus more in the supply chain. 这一潮汐潟湖项目，若如期开展，预计将创造2200个工作岗位，并在供应链中将创造更多。

　　There are some rational reasons to approve of AA, while regretting its consequences.存在一些合理理由支持AA,尽管其后果令人感到遗憾。

　　原文例句：There are some rational reasons to approve of this week's decision, while regretting its consequences. 存在一些合理理由支持本周决定，尽管其后果令人感到遗憾。

　　despite  poll after poll  showing that ……

　　尽管一项又一项的民意调查显示……

　　原文例句：Those decisions — particularly the promise to curb onshore wind, as the Conservatives did in their 2015 manifesto, despite  poll after poll  showing that a majority of the public prefers wind and solar to nuclear — were ideological.这些决定——尤其是保守党在2015年竞选宣言中所做出的抑制陆上风能的承诺，尽管一项又一项的民意调查显示，大多数公众更支持风能和太阳能，而不是核能——都是意识形态上的。一旦算出倒下的多米诺骨牌数量，则会发现一些企业在回应“温斯坦效应”时可能表现得过于狂热改变的是董事会现在不像以往那么愿意为了业绩而忽略不端行为。

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