The windmills in the Netherlands are world-famous, and their main uses are () A. Tourism B. Pumping C. Irrigation of farmland D. Grinding.

The Netherlands is located in the prevailing westerly belt of the earth, which blows westerly winds all the year round. At the same time, it is close to the Atlantic Ocean and is a typical maritime climate country, where land and sea winds are endless all year round. This provides rich compensation for the Netherlands to use wind energy because it lacks hydropower and electricity resources.

Windmills were originally imported from Germany. At first, they were only used for grinding and so on. Later, it was more and more widely used. The Netherlands used its superior wind resources to provide electricity with windmills. Nowadays, windmills are more used as tourist resources to attract tourists.

So choose: a.