65．The best title for the passage is

　　.

　　A．what does half brother mean

　　B．the relationship between mother and son

　　C．The difference between half brother and whole brother

　　D．The explanation about the relationship between the son and his stepfather and half brother

　　B

　　When Europeans first came into Canada,Quebec（魁北克）and Ontario（安大略）were covered with white pine forests.Lumbering（伐木）was big business.Timber was needed in Europe.By 1900 people in the United States wanted to buy Canadian timber as their own forests are largely used up.Canadian cities and towns also needed more and more timber. Farmers on the prairies needed timber to build their homes and barns.The government needed it to build railway.The spread of electricity and telephone needed more poles.Being a timber worker was a good way to make a living.

　　As time went on it became harder to find the big trees that produced the best timber They had already been cut.Timber workers began to move west as far as British Columbia（不列颠哥伦比亚省）he timber they cut was sold to the prairie provinces,the United States and Asia.

　　In the East,the end of the big trees was not the end of the forest industry.The trees that were left were ideal（理想）for making paper.Newspapers needed more and more paper. Canadian forest companies moved in to supply this need.Even today,forest products are Canada’s largest industry.

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