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Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in the rest of Europ

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问题     Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in the rest of Europe. Studies by the Council of Europe, of which 21 countries are members, have shown that 45 per cent of reptile(爬行的)species and 24 per cent of butterflies are in danger of dying out.
    European concern for wildlife was outlined by Dr. Peter Baum, an expert in the environment and nature resources division of the council, When he spoke at a conference arranged by the administrators of a British national park. The park is one of the few areas in Europe to hold the council s diploma for nature reserves of the highest quality, and Dr. Baum had come to present it to the park once again. He was afraid that public opinion was turning against national parks, and that those set up in the 1960s and 1970s could not be set up today. But Dr. Baum clearly remained a strong supporter of the view that natural environments needed to be allowed to survive in peace in their own right.
    No area could be expected to survive both as a true nature reserve and as a tourist attraction, he went on. The shortsighted view that reserves had to serve immediate human demands fur out door recreation should be replaced by full acceptance of their importance as places to preserve nature for the future. "We forget that they are the guarantee of life systems, on which any built-up area ultimately depends, "Dr.  Baum went on, "We could manage without most industrial products, but we could not manage without nature.  However, our natural environment areas, which are the original parts of our countryside, have shrunk to become mere islands in a spoiled and highly polluted land mass."
Although we all depend on the resources of nature for our survival, _______.
选项 A、industrial products are replacing all our natural resources
B、it is only on islands that nature survives
C、we have forgotten what our original countryside looked like
D、we have allowed large areas of countryside to be spoilt by industrial development
答案D
解析 事实细节题。本题问“尽管我们都依靠自然资源生存，但是______”A(工业产品正取代找我们所有的自然资源)；B(自然界只能在小岛上生存)；C(我们已经忘记了农村原来的样子)；文中第四段提到，很多乡村的自然环境地区已经缩小，变成了在被毁坏和高度污染的环境地区的一些小岛，选项D(我们允许乡村的大部分地区被工业发展所毁坏)正是这个意思的同义转述，因此选D。
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