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Last year, 138,000 San Francisco residents used Airbnb, a popular app designed to connect home renters and travelers. It’s a sta

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问题         Last year, 138,000 San Francisco residents used Airbnb, a popular app designed to connect home renters and travelers. It’s a staggering number for a city with a population of about 850,000, and it was enough for Airbnb to win a major victory in local elections, as San Francisco voters struck down a controversial rule that would have placed time restrictions and other regulations on short-term rental services.
    The company fiercely opposed the measure, Proposition F, with a nearly $10 million lobbying and advertising campaign. It also contacted its San Franciscan users with messages urging them to vote against Proposition F.
    Most people think of Airbnb as a kind of couch-surfing app. The service works for one-night stays on road trips and longer stays in cities, and it often has more competitive pricing than hotels. It’s a textbook example of the "sharing economy," but not everyone is a fan.
    The app has had unintended consequences in San Francisco. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported last year, a significant amount of renting on Airbnb is not in line with the company’s image: middle-class families putting up a spare room to help make ends meet. Some users have taken advantage of the service, using it to turn their multiple properties into vacation rentals or even full-time rentals. Backers of Proposition F argued that this trend takes spaces off the conventional, better-regulated housing market and contributes to rising costs.
    "The fact is, widespread abuse of short-term rentals is taking much needed housing off the market and harming our neighborhoods," said ShareBetter SF, a group that supported Proposition F. Hotel unions have protested the company’s practices in San Francisco and other cities, alleging that it creates an illegal hotel system.
    San Francisco is in the middle of a long-term, deeply rooted housing crisis that has seen the cost of living explode. Actually, explode is a generous term. The median monthly rent for an apartment is around $4,000. Located on a narrow outcropping of land overlooking the bay, San Francisco simply doesn’t have enough space to accommodate the massive inflow of young, high-salaried tech employees flocking to Silicon Valley.
    As the Los Angeles Times reported, some San Francisco residents supported the measure simply because it seemed like a way to check a big corporation. Opponents of Proposition F countered that the housing crisis runs much deeper, and that passing the rule would have hampered a popular service while doing little to solve the city’s existential problems.
The housing crisis in San Francisco is resulted from
选项 A、explosion of the living cost.
B、its geographic characteristics.
C、generosity of local enterprises.
D、inflow of migrant population.
答案D
解析 倒数第二段讨论了旧金山的住房危机(housing crisis)。最后一句提到，旧金山没有足够的空间来容纳大量涌入硅谷工作的年轻高薪的技术人员。因此推断造成旧金山住房危机的是外来人口的涌入，故D项正确。A项混淆概念，生活水平的上升本身就是housing crisis的一部分，不是其成因。B项意为“地理特征”，虽然文中提到旧金山的一些地理特点，但这也并不housing crisis的根本原因，最终的原因还是外来人员的加入。C项仅凭原文的generous一词作干扰，原文并没有提到“当地的企业”，故C项也错误。
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