Silicon Valley is home to hundreds of technology companies, so it comes as no surprise that San Jose has partnered with technological giant Intel to transform itself (34) ______ a smart city. San Jose and Intel will work together to further the city's Green Vision initiative - a 15-year plan for economic growth, and improve (35) ______ which it launched in 2007. Intel expects to help San Jose create 25,000 clean-tech jobs, drive economic growth, and improve the city's environmental sustainability. (36) ______ this goal, Intel will work with the city to track real-time data on air quality, noise pollution, traffic flow, and other environmental and urban concerns which it will then use to encourage (37) ______to reduce emissions by using public transportation or bicycles to get to work or school. Smart cities may sound like something of the distant future (38) ______many people thought the same thing about smartphones and smart homes. Up to now, over 70 percent of American adults have owned a smartphone and 1.9 billion smart home devices have been installed. If smart cities are anything like these other smart innovations, we will see them appear in our communities sooner rather than later.

Question 36: A. Achieving                B. To achieve             C. Having achieved                D. Being achieving