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.
We can understand the schoolgirl's reply in the sense that British people have a very easy access to Denmark's pigmeat.
A、正确
B、错误
【正确答案】：A
【名师解析】:题目中描述了丹麦的现代食品工业及其在全球市场中的地位。丹麦虽然人口只有500万，但每年饲养超过2000万头猪，并且是英国进口培根的最大供应国。除此之外，丹麦在奶酪、新鲜和冷冻鱼类等其他食品领域也占有重要市场份额。丹麦的食品工业历史悠久，早在19世纪70年代，面对廉价的美国玉米的挑战，丹麦农民没有提高进口壁垒，而是找到了替代收入来源，发展了向英国出口黄油、鸡蛋和培根的市场。自那时起，丹麦的食品和食品技术工业一直在发展，并且随着加入当时的欧洲共同体，丹麦的初级农业产业还得到了共同农业政策的支持，该政策对向非成员国的出口进行补贴。
题目要求判断一个关于丹麦食品工业的陈述是否正确。根据上文描述，英国人可以很容易地获取丹麦的猪肉产品，这与题目中提到的“英国人对丹麦猪肉产品有很高的需求”是一致的。因此，选项A“正确”是正确的答案。
