最后的四段分別交代了學生父母、企業(yè)和學生們的反應。父母們?yōu)閷W校購買日常教學器具(buying classroom supplies and offering to pay for groceries and utilities)，企業(yè)捐助，如一家雪佛蘭經(jīng)銷商捐助一萬美元，同時免除校車租金(A Chevrolet dealership donated $10,000 and forgave the district’s $10,750 bill)，IBM捐助了實物(4,500 packs of paper)。之后的一段簡單解釋了募捐的原因。最后一段是學生們的行動：建立網(wǎng)站隨時發(fā)布該事件的進展情況(We wanted to know the truth, and spread that around instead.)。
26. What has happened to the Vrain School District?
A) A huge financial problem has arisen.
B) Many schools there are mismanaged.
C) Lots of teachers in the district are planning to quit.
D) Many administrative personnel have been laid off.(A)
題目問Vrain校區(qū)發(fā)生了什么事情。從第一段可知，Vrain校區(qū)發(fā)生了資金短缺($13.8 million budget shortage)，而通讀全篇后可知，這一難題的影響非常嚴重。
A，發(fā)生了嚴重的財務困難。資金短缺(budget shortage)也就是財務困難，可以選A。
B，那里許多學校管理不善。此選項考查對the Vrain school District tries to solve a $13.8 million budget shortage blamed on mismanagement一句的理解。前半句的理解應該不成問題，意思是該校區(qū)力圖解決一個1380萬的預算缺口。后面的blamed on mismanagement是理解的關鍵，blamed是個被動語態(tài)，這里省略了is，而這個句子的完整形式應該是個which引導的從句：shortage which is blamed on mismanagement。Blamed sth on sth 是把某事物的錯誤歸因于另一事物，在句中就是“預算短缺的原因被歸咎于管理不善”。這樣的話，管理不善的對象就是預算而不是學校。
C，該校區(qū)的許多教師計劃離職。文中引用了一位學生家長的話：we really don’t want to lose them because of this，表達了人們對預算短缺可能導致教師離去的后果。但文中沒有指出教師是否計劃(planning)離職，或者是否有“很多”(many)教師有此想法。
D，許多管理人員遭到解雇。文中沒有相關敘述。
27. How did the residents in the Vrain School District respond to the budget shortage?
A) They felt somewhat helpless about it.
B) They accused those responsible for it.
C) They pooled their efforts to help solve it.
D) They demanded a through investigation.(C)
題目問這個校區(qū)的居民對預算短缺如何反應。
A，他們對此事有些愛莫能助。
B，他們譴責此事的罪魁禍首們。
C，他們?yōu)榻鉀Q此事共同出力。
D，他們要求徹查此事。
文章開頭一句話即是敘述居民們?nèi)绾闻椭處熍c學校官員們：residents are pitching in to help teachers and administrators。Pitch in詞組是努力投入的意思，可見居民們對此事十分重視，力爭幫助學校走出難關。C的敘述符合這個意思，而A的敘述與C的意思恰好相反，可以排除。至于B，從全篇來看，對居民們的描寫均為始終是如何幫助學校，沒有提到譴責誰的問題，也沒有要求徹查此事——要求調(diào)查此事的是Coffman(At Coffman’s request——在Coffman的要求下——the District Attorney has begun investigating the district’s finances)，而他是一位官員，不是該地居民。
28. In the view of State Treasurer Mike Coffman, the educational budget shortage is ________.
A) unavoidable
B) unthinkable
C) insolvable
D) irreversible(B)
26. What has happened to the Vrain School District?
A) A huge financial problem has arisen.
B) Many schools there are mismanaged.
C) Lots of teachers in the district are planning to quit.
D) Many administrative personnel have been laid off.(A)
題目問Vrain校區(qū)發(fā)生了什么事情。從第一段可知，Vrain校區(qū)發(fā)生了資金短缺($13.8 million budget shortage)，而通讀全篇后可知，這一難題的影響非常嚴重。
A，發(fā)生了嚴重的財務困難。資金短缺(budget shortage)也就是財務困難，可以選A。
B，那里許多學校管理不善。此選項考查對the Vrain school District tries to solve a $13.8 million budget shortage blamed on mismanagement一句的理解。前半句的理解應該不成問題，意思是該校區(qū)力圖解決一個1380萬的預算缺口。后面的blamed on mismanagement是理解的關鍵，blamed是個被動語態(tài)，這里省略了is，而這個句子的完整形式應該是個which引導的從句：shortage which is blamed on mismanagement。Blamed sth on sth 是把某事物的錯誤歸因于另一事物，在句中就是“預算短缺的原因被歸咎于管理不善”。這樣的話，管理不善的對象就是預算而不是學校。
C，該校區(qū)的許多教師計劃離職。文中引用了一位學生家長的話：we really don’t want to lose them because of this，表達了人們對預算短缺可能導致教師離去的后果。但文中沒有指出教師是否計劃(planning)離職，或者是否有“很多”(many)教師有此想法。
D，許多管理人員遭到解雇。文中沒有相關敘述。
27. How did the residents in the Vrain School District respond to the budget shortage?
A) They felt somewhat helpless about it.
B) They accused those responsible for it.
C) They pooled their efforts to help solve it.
D) They demanded a through investigation.(C)
題目問這個校區(qū)的居民對預算短缺如何反應。
A，他們對此事有些愛莫能助。
B，他們譴責此事的罪魁禍首們。
C，他們?yōu)榻鉀Q此事共同出力。
D，他們要求徹查此事。
文章開頭一句話即是敘述居民們?nèi)绾闻椭處熍c學校官員們：residents are pitching in to help teachers and administrators。Pitch in詞組是努力投入的意思，可見居民們對此事十分重視，力爭幫助學校走出難關。C的敘述符合這個意思，而A的敘述與C的意思恰好相反，可以排除。至于B，從全篇來看，對居民們的描寫均為始終是如何幫助學校，沒有提到譴責誰的問題，也沒有要求徹查此事——要求調(diào)查此事的是Coffman(At Coffman’s request——在Coffman的要求下——the District Attorney has begun investigating the district’s finances)，而他是一位官員，不是該地居民。
28. In the view of State Treasurer Mike Coffman, the educational budget shortage is ________.
A) unavoidable
B) unthinkable
C) insolvable
D) irreversible(B)