单选题The passage implies that new limits on land ownership ______.A will be judged by a farm’s present occupancyB is somewhat in favor of landownersC is likely to be set at 5, 000 hectaresD will be up to central government to decide

When George Osbome,Chancellor of the Exchequer,is spotted outside Westminster,he is very often making an appearance on a building site,wearing a fluorescent safety jacket.It was no surprise to hear him claim once again,in his budget speech on March 19th,that"We're getting Britain building".Sadly,given the huge exlenl of Britain's housing shortage,the chancellor's proposed interventions do not add up to much.The biggest announcement was that the government will extend Help to Buy,a scheme that guarantees mortgages for people purchasing newly built homes.Mr Osbome also hopes to build a new town at Ebbsfleet,a patch of post-industrial land in the Thames estuary,and promises to speed up the redevelopment of several rotting 1960s and 1970s social housing estates in London.By making it easier for house builders to shift their stock,Help to Buy has probably helped boost building slightly,especially in northern cities where construction had all but ceased.Extending the programme will boost Britain's housing stock by 120,000 by 2020,the Treasury cltums,though it will also expose taxpayers to any future house-price crash.Mr Osborne also announced a new fund to support lending io smaU house builders-who have sLruggled to get financing in recent years which ought to have a similar effect.The new town is more advencurous.Ebbsfleei.where a high-speed rail link to London opened in 2007,has had plans for new homes for almost 20 years.Few have been built,mosdy because the site is a partially flooded quarry with little in the way of shops.public transport or infrastructure.The government's new idea is to create a development corporation with control over planning and the ability to borrow to clean up and prepare the site.That was how post-war new towns such as Milton Keynes and Stevenage were built.A sinular interventionism is visible in the plan to rebuild 1960s estates.Many of these,such as the Aylesbury Estate in SouLhwark and Robin Hood Gardens in Tower Hamlets,are crummbling.By increasing the density on the sites,and using the proceeds of selling the extra houses built,it ought to be possible to cover the cost of reconstniclion.Bui counciLs have been short of money to do much themselves,and private developers extract high retums in exchange for putting up capital.With central-govemment money,those projects ought to move quicker and councils ought to get more for their land.
According to Paragraph 2.Help to Buy is a project designed to_____

A.help people to build new homes
B.guarantee mortgage for everyone
C.ensure easy loan for home buyers
D.speed up social housing construction

Apple Inc.on Monday unveiled new controls to help people curb the amount of time they spend on iPhones and iPads,as well as allow parents to remotely track and limit their children's use of those devices-a 1 to growing societal concern that adults and children are too 2on phones The company said a new app it will s 3 in September called"Screen Time"will provide users with weekly reports of the apps they use and allow them to set time limits 4 their use of those apps Parents will be able to use the system to remotely monitor the apps their children use and limit their time On 5 The new 6 played a central role 7 Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference,a 8 of about 6,000 developers who create the apps for the iPhone,iPad and Mac computers.The event is designed to 9 Apple's latest software-including the newest features to further 10 into people's digital lives Those new features include a new Shortcuts app that will 11 the Siri voice command with certain apps-12,Siri could state flight and hotel 13 from the Kayak app with a voice command 14 Apple has offered parental controls for years,analysts say the system 15 allows parents to set limits on their childrens device use--not monitor it 16 a continuing basis.The new“Screen time”feature changes that by giving parents those same17.A new reports will 18 how users spend time with the iPhone,including 19 per hour they look at their phones,when they are using particular apps and what apps are sending the most 20
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A.on
B.in
C.at
D.for

The government has set up a working party to look into the case.

A:investigate
B:study
C:solve
D:see

When George Osbome,Chancellor of the Exchequer,is spotted outside Westminster,he is very often making an appearance on a building site,wearing a fluorescent safety jacket.It was no surprise to hear him claim once again,in his budget speech on March 19th,that"We're getting Britain building".Sadly,given the huge exlenl of Britain's housing shortage,the chancellor's proposed interventions do not add up to much.The biggest announcement was that the government will extend Help to Buy,a scheme that guarantees mortgages for people purchasing newly built homes.Mr Osbome also hopes to build a new town at Ebbsfleet,a patch of post-industrial land in the Thames estuary,and promises to speed up the redevelopment of several rotting 1960s and 1970s social housing estates in London.By making it easier for house builders to shift their stock,Help to Buy has probably helped boost building slightly,especially in northern cities where construction had all but ceased.Extending the programme will boost Britain's housing stock by 120,000 by 2020,the Treasury cltums,though it will also expose taxpayers to any future house-price crash.Mr Osborne also announced a new fund to support lending io smaU house builders-who have sLruggled to get financing in recent years which ought to have a similar effect.The new town is more advencurous.Ebbsfleei.where a high-speed rail link to London opened in 2007,has had plans for new homes for almost 20 years.Few have been built,mosdy because the site is a partially flooded quarry with little in the way of shops.public transport or infrastructure.The government's new idea is to create a development corporation with control over planning and the ability to borrow to clean up and prepare the site.That was how post-war new towns such as Milton Keynes and Stevenage were built.A sinular interventionism is visible in the plan to rebuild 1960s estates.Many of these,such as the Aylesbury Estate in SouLhwark and Robin Hood Gardens in Tower Hamlets,are crummbling.By increasing the density on the sites,and using the proceeds of selling the extra houses built,it ought to be possible to cover the cost of reconstniclion.Bui counciLs have been short of money to do much themselves,and private developers extract high retums in exchange for putting up capital.With central-govemment money,those projects ought to move quicker and councils ought to get more for their land.
Ebbsfleet is mentioned in the text to show____

A.the necessary Dart of urbanization
B.the boldness of building new towns
C.the urgency of housing construction
D.the importance of building infrastructure