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More and more people are annoyed at the continually rising house prices. They want to know who is to blame for it. Local governments, developers and speculators share a vested interest in it. People who are really in need of homes are most likely to suffer heavy losses.
Many local governments depend on selling land to keep its normal operation. The higher land prices, the more money. Therefore, developers back the local governments by buying land at high prices. In return, the governments make favorable policies to help the developers. For example, drive all the possible home buyers to this nasty market. They even encourage large numbers of speculators to catch more people.
Rising house prices have already become the fence which divides the Chinese society. It has caused widespread dissatisfaction. The government will lose the support of the common people if leaving house prices out of control. Besides, rising house prices willstop us building the new country side as the present policy actually forbid people to flow freely from cities to the countryside.
Collecting taxes on houses can fundamentally solve this problem. On one hand, it will discourage the speculators. On the other hand, it will offer a stable tax resource apart from reducing the sales cost of the developers. Secondly, stop the developers selling the houses before completion. If so, the developers will certainly try their best to sell all their houses once completed. And this will also lower speculators' expectation of price rising, which will decrease speculations.
The only victims of rising house prices are __________.

A.governments
B.real home buyers
C.developers
D.speculators

The local governments reward the developers by __________.

A.offering enough land
B.allowing sales in advance
C.providing enough buyers
D.making favorable policies

We can infer from the passage that continually rising house. prices will __________.

A.benefit the government
B.draw more home buyers
C.help the housing industry develop soundly
D.affect the sound development of the Chinese society

Collecting taxes on houses has all the following effects except __________.

A.making the developers do their best to sell their houses
B.cutting down speculations
C.supplying a stable tax resource for the government
D.decreasing the sales cost
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