The owner of the cinema needed to make a lot of improvements and employ more people to keep it running,

____ meant spending tens of thousands of pounds. [ ]

A. who

B. that

C. as

D. which

社会主义制度建立后，民主党派的性质是（）。

A.小资产阶级政党

B.各阶级的联盟

C.为社会主义服务的政治联盟

D.资产阶级政党