单选题In North America, ______.Aconsumers cut down 2 and half million hectares of forest each year.Bthe forest service spends a huge sum of money trying to repair the damage caused by consumers.Cdeforestation has cause huge amount of loss.Dfires have caused steep loss to the forests.

单选题
In North America, ______.
A

consumers cut down 2 and half million hectares of forest each year.

B

the forest service spends a huge sum of money trying to repair the damage caused by consumers.

C

deforestation has cause huge amount of loss.

D

fires have caused steep loss to the forests.


参考解析

解析:
录音中指出“今年以来,北美大概有250万公顷的森林被大火吞噬”,接着描述了大火造成的巨大的经济损失,因此选项D为正确答案。
【录音原文】
So far this year, some 2 and half million hectares (6 m acres) of North American forest have been consumed by fire. And several fires are still blazing in the west of the continent. The United States’ Forest Service reckons it will spend around $900m in 2003 on putting fires out, and the damage such fires have caused probably cost several times that figure.

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