44 According to the passage, what might cause forest fires?
(A) Haze.
(B) Smoke.
(C) Bombs.
(D) Plantations.

According to the passage, what might cause forest fires? 

(D) plantations. 人造林地/開墾地

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some companies set forest fires on purpose. They do this to clear land and make way for palm oil plantations. 

有些公司刻意的製造森林大火,目的是清理土地及開墾棕櫚園

 Forest fires森林大火 continue to burn in several parts of Indonesia印尼. 

Luckily, a brief短暫rain storm暴風雨 helped break up smoke from some of the fires on Wednesday. 

The President said rainfall雨量 cleared away清除 much of the smoke in Sumatra.

He said the haze霾 was reduced to a level where commercial airline companies商業航空公司 could operate again.

But another official told reporters that much more rain is needed to help put out撲滅the fires.

Luhut Panjaitan is Indonesia’s Coordinating聯合 Minister部長 of Politics政治, Law and Security. 

“This week we have rain. If we have intensive加強 rain for four straight days and our water bombings轟炸 continue, I hope we would be back to normal next week. That’s our hope, but again it all depends on how much rain we have,” he said. 

The official added that he has asked government agencies to consider the possibility of creating artificial人工 rain. Indonesia has come under heavy pressure from neighboring鄰近 countries and environmental groups集團 to put out the fires. 

Every year, some companies set forest fires on purpose故意. 

They do this to clear land and make way for palm oil棕櫚油 plantations種植地. 

Thousands of people have developed breathing problems because of the smoke. 

Some non-governmental organizations plan to take legal action against the government. 

They say Indonesian officials have ignored the well-being福利 of communities affected by the smoke. 

The government has deployed部署 more than 22,000 police officers and armed forces members to fight the forest fires. 

There are more than 1,600 fires burning in at least six provinces省.