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IV.篇章結構 Paragraph Structure (10%)     In 1984, a cow in Britain fell ill. The disease was found to be a new one, and people’s worst fears quickly came true. __31___. From the time the UK Ministry of Agriculture accepted that there was a new disease in 1986 until October 2009, 165 people had died of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, more commonly known as mad cow disease (MC
(D).    __32___. Along with the 165 human fatalities, more than 179,000 cattle had been infected in the UK alone. Raising cattle and producing beef is a major industry, and the need to stop the disease from spreading was an urgent one. __33___.   MCD attacks the brains and spinal cords of cattle. The deterioration of their brains affects their behavior, which is the reason for the name of disease. The disease seems to be caused and spread only by cattle eating other cattle. Cows are herbivores, so how do they eat other cows? The answer again is not very pleasant. __34___. Since the feed is ground and mixed together, it’s hard to tell which food has been contaminated or which cows may have consumed it.     Thanks to the enormous slaughter of the cattle that might have been infected, the disease now seems to be under control. __35___. However, the disease is not fully understood, and as demonstrated by the recent protests in Taiwan, people are still worried. Some people believe that MCD shows us that farming methods and slaughtering practices are not totally safe, healthy, or reliable.  
(A) Therefore, some 4.4 million cows were slaughtered in an effort to eradicate the disease. 
(B) To save money on cattle feed, farmers oftentimes grind up the remains of dead cows and combine it with normal food. 
(C) The disease rapidly spread among cattle in Britain and even infected humans that had eaten the tainted beef.
(D) Only five or so cases per year have been found in recent years. 
(E) The story of MCD is not pretty.
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統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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