TOEFL Reading: ETS-TOEFL阅读机经 - M00ABM4513IR0_P7L$

According to paragraph 3 why did wealthy land owners increase the size of the land they owned? A. To avoid the necessity of arranged marriages between their children and the children of other land owners B. To ensure that there were enough land to divide between their older and younger sons C. To increase the number of goods that their farms produced D. To provide more jobs for members of the colony