单选题 Our country had made great efforts to promote the family-planning policy, but ______ the birth rate is getting higher and higher.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 词组辨析。as it were可以说,在某种程度上;as it is/was实际上。句意:我们国家已经大力推进计划生育政策,但在某种程度上来说,出生率越来越高。故答案为A。