TPO 4 deer populations of the puget sound - 英檢

Reduction in numbers of game should have boded ill for their survival in
later times. A worsening of the plight of deer was to be expected as settlers
encroached on the land, logging, burning, and clearing, eventually replacing
a wilderness landscape with roads, cities, towns, and factories.

No doubt the numbers of deer declined still further. Recall the fate of the Columbian white-tailed deer, now in a protected status. But for the black-tailed deer,
human pressure has had just the opposite effect. Wild life zoologist Hulmut
Buechner(1953), in reviewing the nature of biotic changes in Washington
through recorded time, Says that "since the early 1940s, the state has had
more deer than at any other time in its history, the winter population
fluctuating around approximately 320,000 deer (mule and black-tailed deer),
which will yield about 65,000 of either sex and any age annually for an
indefinite period."


8.Which og the following statements about deer population is supported

by the information in paragraph 4?

A: Deer populatios reached their hightest point during the 1940s
and then began to decline

(這個選項應該是錯 and 後面這段話?是嗎)

B: The activities of settlers contributed in unexpected ways to the
growth of some deer populations in later times.

(我把答案定位在前面四行，不過我完全不懂這選項再表達甚麼)

B是正確答案，可以跟我說一下這個選項跟這一段內容提到的關係嗎?

謝謝。

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