[背景了解]
    今天的文章取自于2003年1月的閱讀真題
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    When school officials in Kalkaska, Michigan, closed classes last week, the media flocked to the story, portraying the town’s 2,305 students as victims of stingy (吝嗇的) taxpayers. There is some truth to that; the property-tax rate here is one-third lower than the state average. But shutting their schools also allowed Kalkaska’s educators and the state’s largest teachers’ union, the Michigan Education Association, to make a political point. Their aim was to spur passage of legislation Michigan lawmakers are debating to increase the state’s share of school funding.
    [單詞學(xué)習(xí)]
    portray vt.描繪
    victim n.受害者,受騙者,受災(zāi)者
    property n.所有物，財(cái)產(chǎn)
    spur v.鞭策,鼓勵(lì)，敦促
    legislation n.法律,法規(guī)
    [課后作業(yè)]采集者退散
    請(qǐng)翻譯下列4個(gè)句子
    1.Dickens portrayed his characters to the life.
    2.Concern is mounting that the estimated 1.5 million people left homeless will fall victim to epidemics of cholera（霍亂） and other illnesses.
    3. At the nadir of recession, he had to sell his property and move into his parents' house.
    4.Their aim was to spur passage of legislation Michigan lawmakers are debating to increase the state’s share of school funding.（提示一下喔，Michigan lawmakers are debating定語(yǔ)從句，修飾passage of legislation ）
    答案：
    1.狄更斯把他筆下的人物描繪得栩栩如生。
    2.人們的擔(dān)心日甚一日，因?yàn)楣烙?jì)有150萬(wàn)人無(wú)家可歸，霍亂及其他流行病的爆發(fā)會(huì)危及到他們。
    3.在景氣低迷時(shí),他必須把產(chǎn)業(yè)賣(mài)掉搬回去和父母住。
    4.他們的目的是敦促州政府通過(guò)增加辦學(xué)基金的立法。