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正确答案：D
解析：细节推断题。第二段说“... have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison”，在这里说早期的殖民者认为有必要辟出一块地方修建一座监狱和一个公墓，jail的意思与prison意思—致。