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（湖南省衡阳八中2010届高三上学期第二次月考）

学校网站开办“环境与生活”英语论坛。请你根据下面表格所提供的内容，以“Environmentally Friendly Renewable Energy” 为题，进行陈述并谈谈你的看法，参加学校网站英语论坛的讨论

目前的状况	我国传统能源的使用占总用量的80%以上； 可再生新能源正越来越快得到开发利用。
优势与劣势的对比	传统能源	资源有限；造成空气污染、酸雨；促成全球变暖等环境问题。
	可再生能源	取之不竭；清洁、无污染； 现阶段成本偏高; 产能不够稳定。
你的看法和展望	……

注意：1. 不要逐条翻译， 可适当发挥。

               2. 词数：150左右。文章的开头部分已给出，不计入总词数。

         3. 参考词汇： 取之不竭 inexhaustible 

Environmentally Friendly Renewable Energy

In our country, the traditional energy sources like coal, oil and natural gas are still widely used, making up over eighty percent of the total energy consumption. However, ______________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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One possible version:

In our country, the traditional energy sources like coal, oil and natural gas are still widely used, making up over eighty percent of the total energy consumption. However, as a worldwide shortage of such energy is seemingly growing more serious, renewable energy sources, such as, solar energy, wind energy and hydropower, are being developed and made good use of at an increasingly fast rate.

As we all know, our dependence on coal and oil for energy supply has caused severe environmental problems. It has brought about heavy air pollution. There are frequent acid rains and smog in some areas. It has also contributed to the global warming and other problems. Moreover, such energy sources will be exhausted in less than a hundred years if exploited at the present rate. Renewable energy, on the other hand, has great advantages. It is obviously inexhaustible. And above all, it is clean and causes little or no pollution to the environment.

We are glad that our government encourages the development of renewable energy. With more and more renewable energy, we will live in an increasingly beautiful and harmonious environment.