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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 intention of Proposition F is to
选项 A、place time limits in local election.
B、set limits on short-term rental.
C、strike down a controversial rule.
D、urge users to vote against Airbnb.
答案B
解析 题干中的Proposition F出现在第二段，但第一段末的controversial rule指的就是Proposition F。第一段提到，该提案对短期租赁设置时间限制和一些别的限制。B项所述与之相符。A项错在local election，限制的对象是“短期租赁”，与“当地的选举”无关。C项逻辑混乱，controversial rule所指的就是Proposition F本身。不可能说“提议就是为了推翻这个提案本身”。D项所述出现在第二段末，该部分说的是Airbnb呼吁用户投反对票，反对Proposition F，但D项说的是Proposition F呼吁用户反对Airbnb。
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