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There is a tale that straw (稻草) is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry w

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问题     There is a tale that straw (稻草) is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry wolf around. So the cards were stacked against Warren Brush when local officials learned that he had several buildings made of straw bales (大捆) on his land.
    They have tried to fine him a lot. But the case is still unresolved. The problem is that California’s building codes make no provision for the use of straw. And Mr. Brush has many defenders—among them several university scientists and David Eisenberg, the chairman of the United States Green Building Council’s code committee. They would like to see the prejudice against straw houses eliminated, for straw is, in many ways, an ideal building material.
    It is, for one thing, a great insulator(绝热体). That keeps down the healting bills houses made from it. It is also a waste product that would otherwise be burned, and is therefore cheap. And—very much to the point in a place like California—it is earthquake-resistant. Last year a test conducted at the University of Nevada showed that straw-bale constructions could withstand twice the amount of ground motion recorded in the Northbridge earthquake that hit Los Angeles in 1994.
    There are other straws in the wind: a post office in suburban Albuquerque, a school in Maryland, and on office complex in suburban Los Angeles have all been built from straw. Even California is having a rethink, and may change its rules to adapt to straw-bale construction. As Mr. Eisenberg observes, "The lesson of the Three Little Pigs isn’t to avoid straw. It’s that you don’t let a pig build your house. "
By "the cards were stacked against Warren Bruch" , the anthor means .
选项 A、Brush disliked playing cards
B、cards were piled around Brush
C、Brush might lose the card game
D、Brush could be in trouble
答案D
解析 ABC三项，都采用的是card的原意“纸牌”，而原文与“纸牌”没有任何关系。另外，我们也能从第二段第一句话中，“他们试图给他以重罚”，可以判断，Brush可能会陷入困境。因此正确答案为D。
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