【答案解析】{{B}}[参考范文]{{/B}} It has reported that people have committed a series of unusual thefts in the West of England. They have cut down and taken away a large number of trees over a wide area. The local people have just discovered what has been happening only recently as they do not often visit the woods in winter, but they think the thefts may have covered a considerable period as they have affected several districts. They might be a group of people or several groups of unexpected ones. The thieves have cut down the trees in remote areas where no one could have heard any noise of sawing or sounds of transportation by lorries. No one can explain why they have taken the trees or what they will do with them. One can extract alcohol from certain types of wood but one can hardly take seriously the possi999erman counterparts, are now secretly devoting their time to the construction of cuckoo clocks? Or have the ghosts of the early charcoal-burners, unaware of the existence of coal, petrol and atoms, resumed their ancient activities in these aged woods? People say that the police, gamekeepers and forest wardens are keeping watch so presumably soon or later, someone will explain unromantically the odd and unprecedented mystery of the disappearing trees.