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請依下文回答第 12 題至第 16 題Even the most marvelous computer eventually winds up in the trash. The United Nations estimates that 20 millionto 50 million tons of e-waste are created worldwide every year. 12 all those circuit-boards and plastic casings donot just vanish on their own. A lot ends up in a place called Guiyu, once a quiet fishing village on China’s coast, 150miles from Hong Kong. Now as many as 100,000 workers do the dirty and very dangerous work of 13 andrecycling the scraps, which contain toxins such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Ahealth survey done last year by nearby Shantou University found that of 165 children under the age of 6 examined inGuiyu, 82% had 14 of lead poisoning. A vast majority of the e-waste comes from the US and countries inEurope—despite rules established at the 1989 Basel Convention that banned the trading of toxic materials. China passedits own law banning the 15 of e-waste in 2002, after a report drew attention to Guiyu. But the law is ineffectual16 smuggling and local corruption. Guiyu is not the only place recycling the discarded computers of richer nations.Similar operations have been found by environmental groups in Karachi, Pakistan, and Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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(A) So
(B) Then
(C) For
(D) But

參考答案

答案：D
難度：困難0.378378
統計：A(1),B(10),C(10),D(14),E(0)

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