2 希腊欲打造小众岛屿：“绿色低碳”或成卖点
A Greek island is to host an experiment in low-carbon living
希腊一小岛将进行低碳生活实验
A butterfly-shaped island in the central Aegean hopes to become Greece's first carbon-free 1_____(tour) destination. Under a deal with the government, Volkswagen, a carmaker, has donated several new electric vehicles for use by Astypalea's public services; it 2_____(sell) others at cost price to its 1,200 year-round residents.
In return, the government has bumped up subsidies(补贴) for 3_____(island) to buy electric cars and will build a hybrid（混合的） solar and wind-fuelled power plant to replace a cluster of polluting diesel-fired generators.
The island 4_____(select) for Volkswagen's e-mobility experiment after Nikos Komineas, the go-ahead mayor, contacted the transport ministry for help in finding an electric bus 5_____( try) out on its rugged (崎岖的)roads.
Most islanders sound keen 6_____the project. Mr Komineas expects the number of private cars on Astypalea to fall by a third over the next five years. Its residents, he says, will get around on e-scooters and electric minibuses, 7_____ will be free, linked to a mobile-phone app and available round the clock.
Some observers detect a whiff(味道) of greenwashing. A tender for a solar park that would generate half the island's electricity within three years will not get under way before the tourist season 8_____(end).
A single wind turbine（涡轮机） will be installed only in 2026, assuming(假设) the licensing process goes 9_____(smooth). That is not normally the case in the Aegean, where islanders worry that tourists will go elsewhere 10_____the view is spoiled by a turbine 200 metres high. And even then, the hybrid power unit is planned to cover only about 80% of summer demand. But it is a start.
Keys:
1 tourist 2 will sell 3 islanders 4 was selected 5 to try
6 on 7 which 8 ends 9 smoothly 10 if
希腊一小岛将进行低碳生活实验
A butterfly-shaped island in the central Aegean hopes to become Greece's first carbon-free 1_____(tour) destination. Under a deal with the government, Volkswagen, a carmaker, has donated several new electric vehicles for use by Astypalea's public services; it 2_____(sell) others at cost price to its 1,200 year-round residents.
In return, the government has bumped up subsidies(补贴) for 3_____(island) to buy electric cars and will build a hybrid（混合的） solar and wind-fuelled power plant to replace a cluster of polluting diesel-fired generators.
The island 4_____(select) for Volkswagen's e-mobility experiment after Nikos Komineas, the go-ahead mayor, contacted the transport ministry for help in finding an electric bus 5_____( try) out on its rugged (崎岖的)roads.
Most islanders sound keen 6_____the project. Mr Komineas expects the number of private cars on Astypalea to fall by a third over the next five years. Its residents, he says, will get around on e-scooters and electric minibuses, 7_____ will be free, linked to a mobile-phone app and available round the clock.
Some observers detect a whiff(味道) of greenwashing. A tender for a solar park that would generate half the island's electricity within three years will not get under way before the tourist season 8_____(end).
A single wind turbine（涡轮机） will be installed only in 2026, assuming(假设) the licensing process goes 9_____(smooth). That is not normally the case in the Aegean, where islanders worry that tourists will go elsewhere 10_____the view is spoiled by a turbine 200 metres high. And even then, the hybrid power unit is planned to cover only about 80% of summer demand. But it is a start.
Keys:
1 tourist 2 will sell 3 islanders 4 was selected 5 to try
6 on 7 which 8 ends 9 smoothly 10 if
