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  3. The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by

The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by

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问题     The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A—E. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you.

A. Hemp has been cultivated by many cultures for thousands of years. It produces fibre which can be made into paper, fuel, oils, textiles, food, and rope. For many centuries, it was essential to the economies of many countries because it was used to make the ropes and cables used on sailing ships; colonial expansion and the establishment of a world-wide trading network would not have been possible without hemp. Nowadays, ships’ cables are usually made from’ wire or synthetic fibres, but scientists are now suggesting that the cultivation of hemp should be revived for the production of paper and pulp. According to its proponents, four times as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than tress, and many environmentalists believe that the large-scale cultivation of hemp could reduce the pressure on Canada’s forests.
B. Much of Canada’s forestry production goes towards making pulp and paper. According to the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, Canada supplies 34% of the world’s wood pulp and 49% of its newsprint paper. If these paper products could be produced in some other way, Canadian forests could be preserved. Recently, a possible alternative way of producing paper has been suggested by agriculturalists and environmentalists: a plant called hemp.
C. In recent years, two major movements for legalization have been gathering strength. One group of activists believes that ALL cannabis should be legal—both the hemp plant and the marijuana plant—and that the use of the drag marijuana should not be an offense. They argue that marijuana is not dangerous or addictive, and that it is used by large numbers of people who are not criminals but productive members of society. They also point out that marijuana is less toxic than alcohol or tobacco.
D. However, there is a problem: hemp is illegal in many countries of the world. This plant, so useful for fibre, rope, oil, fuel and textiles, is a species of cannabis, related to the plant from which marijuana is produced.
E. The other legalization movement is concerned only with the hemp plant used to produce fibre; this group wants to make it legal to cultivate the plant and sell the fibre for paper and pulp production. This second group has had a major triumph recently: in 1997, Canada legalized the farming of hemp for fibre. For the first time since 1938, hundreds of farmers are planting this crop, and soon we can expect to see pulp and paper produced from this new source.
F. In the late 1930s, a movement to ban the drug marijuana began to gather force, resulting in the eventual banning of the cultivation not only of the plant used to produce the drug, but also of the commercial fibre-producing hemp plant. Although both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp in large quantities on their own land, any American growing the plant today would soon find himself in prison—despite the fact that marijuana cannot be produced from the hemp plant, since it contains almost no THC (the active ingredient in the drug).
G. Every second, 1 hectare of the world’s rainforest is destroyed. That’s equivalent to two football fields. An area the size of New York City is lost every day. In a year, that adds up to 31 million hectares—more than the land area of Poland. This alarming rate of destruction has serious consequences for the environment; scientists estimate, for example, that 137 species of plant, insect or animal become extinct every day due to logging. In British Columbia, where, since 1990, thirteen rainforest valleys have been clear-cut, 142 species of salmon have already become extinct, and the habitats of grizzly bears, wolves and many other creatures are threatened. Logging, however, provides jobs, profits, taxes for the government and cheap products of all kinds for consumers, so the government is reluctant to restrict or control it.

Order: G is the first paragraph and E is the last.
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答案B
解析     本题给出了个段落中G、E分别作为首段和尾段。G说的是：世界范围内雨林遭受破坏的程度和速度惊人。造成这些的原因是伐木。伐木给工人所带来的利润和给政府带来的税收使得对伐木管理起来很难。E项说到："另一场运动是关于能制造纤维的大麻(hemp)的，这个组织想争取种植它的合法性，把纤维卖给浆纸生产部门。第二个组织近来已经取得了一个很大的进步：1997年，加拿大终于承认纤维大麻(hemp)合法性。自1938年来第一次，成百上千的农民种植这种植物，很快，我们就会看到，用这种新来源所制造的浆纸"。从这两段可以看出本文是从伐木所引发的问题过渡到使用其它新材料来造纸的叙事性文章。
    再看其余五个选项，首段提到森林砍伐现象严重，而B项的开头一句也是以森林开头的，所以两者是照应的，B排在第二位。B的结尾提到了一种可以取代树木、叫做大麻的植物，但没展开，我们推测下面一段必然是有关大麻的展开。A选项从hemp最终应用于造纸的起源开始，讲了它的多种用途，刚好符合我们的推测，所以A排在第三位。余下的3个选项牵涉到hemp非法的字眼，可以推测到，第三位接下来必然有一个转折，D中however刚好符合。F为D的例证，应紧跟在其后。最后C的位置成了必然。
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