A Healthy Appetite for World Markets
An English schoolgirl who was asked in the 1980s what she associated with Denmark,replied:“pig,pig,bacon,pig".This may not be an uncommon image,but there is much more both to modern Denmark and to its food industry.
Though it rears than 20 million pigs a year and still provides the best-selling imported bacon in Britain,Denmark,with only 5 million people,produces enough food for three times that number.It also has a large share of world markets in other areas apart from pigmeat where it has specialised such as cheese and fresh and frozen fish.The rise of the primary food industries-pigmeat,dairy products and fish-has been accompanied,too,by the development of in associated industries,many of them world leaders.
The strong position which the country holds in the food industry goes back a long way.Denmark was one of a few countries in Europe which did not react to the challenge of cheap American corn in the 1870s by raising import barriers.Instead,its farmers had to find alternative sources of income,and as a result,developed a lucrative market exporting butter,eggs and bacon to the UK.
The country's food and food technology industry has never looked back.Since entry into the then European Community further support for Denmark's primary agricultural industry has come from the common agricultural policy,which subsidizes exports to non-member countries.
The Danish primary food industries could not be developed without the rise of the companies in associated industries.
A、正确
B、错误
【正确答案】：A
【名师解析】:题目正确性的解析如下：
文章首先通过一个英国女学生对丹麦的刻板印象引出话题，然后详细描述了丹麦的现代面貌及其食品工业的多样性和实力。丹麦虽然以养猪业闻名，每年饲养超过2000万头猪，并且是英国最受欢迎的进口培根来源国，但其食品生产能力远超国内需求，足以养活三倍于其人口的人数。此外，丹麦在奶酪和新鲜及冷冻鱼类等其他食品领域也占有世界市场的相当份额。
文章进一步指出，丹麦食品工业的强大地位有着悠久的历史。在19世纪70年代，面对廉价美国玉米的挑战，丹麦没有选择提高进口壁垒，而是迫使其农民寻找其他收入来源，结果发展出了向英国出口黄油、鸡蛋和培根的有利可图的市场。
丹麦加入欧洲共同体后，其主要农业产业得到了共同农业政策的支持，该政策补贴向非成员国的出口。此外，丹麦主要食品产业的发展也离不开相关产业公司的崛起。
综上所述，丹麦的食品工业不仅历史悠久，而且在多个领域具有全球竞争力，这与题目中所述内容相符，因此答案是正确的。
