首页
登录
职称英语
Why did the paper industry need a new source of fiber in the early 1800s? [br]
Why did the paper industry need a new source of fiber in the early 1800s? [br]
游客
2023-11-02
45
管理
问题
Why did the paper industry need a new source of fiber in the early 1800s? [br]
In the early 1800s, the paper industry was still using rags as its basic source of fiber just as it had for many centuries.(18)However, the rag supply couldn’t keep up with the growing demand for paper. The United States alone was using 250 thousand tons of rags each year. And a quarter of that had to be imported. It was clear that a new source of fiber was needed to keep up with the demand for paper. The answer to this problem turned out to be paper made from wood pulp, something that was abundantly available in North America. In Canada, the first wood pulp mill was set up in 1866 and it was immediately successful. But while wood pulp solved the problem of quantity it created a problem of quality. Wood contains a substance called lignin. The simplest way to make large quantities of cheap paper involves leaving the lignin in the wood pulp.(19)But lignin is acidic and its presence in paper shortens the life expectancy of paper from several centuries for rag paper to less than a century for paper made from wood pulp.(20)This means that books printed less than a hundred years ago are already turning yellow and beginning to disintegrate, even though books printed much earlier maybe in fine condition. This is bad enough for the older books on your bookshelf but it poses a huge problem for libraries and the collections of government documents.
选项
A、It is difficult to obtain.
B、Paper cannot be made without it.
C、It causes paper to deteriorate.
D、It prevents wood from being turned into pulp.
答案
C
解析
语义理解题。根据句(19)可知,木质素使用木浆造出来的纸容易受损,不方便长时间保存。因此C为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3151740.html
相关试题推荐
______,heisreadytoacceptsuggestionsfromdifferentsources.A、Insteadofhi
Theselow-budgetanimatedfilmsarethemainsourceof______ofthisindependent
WhatdoestheJusticeDepartmentaccusetheindustry?[br][originaltext]Cl
Whydidthepaperindustryneedanewsourceoffiberintheearly1800s?[br]
______,heisreadytoacceptsuggestionsfromdifferentsources.A、Insteadofhi
Dostudentslearnmorefromclassesthanfromotherresources?Thishasbeen
WhichofthefollowingsentencesisINCORRECT?A、Theironandsteelindustryare
______,heisreadytoacceptsuggestionsfromdifferentsources.A、Insteadofhi
Consideringthatindustryanalystsclaimthathospitalpricecalculationsar
Agricultureisthecountry’schiefsourceofwealth,wheat______byfarthebigge
随机试题
TitlesforafirstdegreeinuniversitiesareBachelorof______andBachelorof__
Law-and-orderisthelongest-runningandprobablythebest-lovepolitical(1
Ihadnoideaaboutthataccident______mymothertoldme.A、untilB、unlessC、ex
In1977,thegroupWomenOfficeWorkersheldacontestforsecretaries,invi
ThehistoryofindigenouseducationprovisionthroughoutAustralia’sremote
被鲁迅称为现代“中国最为杰出的抒情诗人”是()A.郭沫若 B.闻一多 C.冯
架空煤气管道气压强度试验的压力应为设计压力的()倍。A.1.15 B.1.20
评定可燃液体火灾危险性最直接的指标是()。A.闪点 B.蒸气压 C.燃点
把下面的六个图形分为两类,使每类图形都有各自的共同特征或规律,分类正确的一项是(
我国公司法规定,有限责任公司监事会会议每()至少召开一次。A.六个月 B
最新回复
(
0
)