What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The size of tropical rainforest loss B. Typical patterns of extinction of rainforest species

C. Causes and effects of rainforest destruction D. The rate of rainforest destruction in the Amazon

37. According to paragraph 1, which of the following about the rate of rainforest destruction is TRUE?

A. It was greater in the 1980s than in the early 1990s.

B. It was the same in the early 1990s as in the 1980s.

C. It kept increasing from the 1980s to the 1990s.

D. It was greater in the early 1990s than in the 1980s.