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St. Paul has transformed soaring energy costs into a golden opportunity for economic development by putting the final touches on

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问题     St. Paul has transformed soaring energy costs into a golden opportunity for economic development by putting the final touches on plans to:
    1. Build the nation’s first system that will heat all major downtown buildings with waste heat now being dumped into the Mississippi River by electric utilities.
    2. Create a & 9-million "energy bank"to lend money to improve the energy efficiency of homes at low 9-to-11-percent interest rates.
    3. Construct the nation’s first "energy park". The area will include only those commercial, residential, and industrial facilities that are doing something energy-related. More than & 150-million worth of commit-ments has already been lined up.
    These developments did not just happen. They resulted when Mayor George Latimer asked volunteers to chart a new future for a city that is twice as cold as New York. "We cannot any longer look to foreign nations,old companies or the federal government to solve our energy crisis,"Latimer told his constituents. "We must look to ourselves to find the answers."  
The reason why these developments did not happen before was(that)_____.
选项 A、the city imported enough foreign oil for its major downtown buildings
B、the federal government didn’t approve the necessary money for the construction
C、not given
D、St. Paul is colder than New York
答案C
解析 题目问：那些发展为什么以前没有发生?通过文章内容可知，对于那些发展为什么以前没有发生的原因在文章中并没有给出，所以，答案是C。
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