大学英语六级备考之边阅读边记单词:第 6 期今日的文章取自于 1 月的阅读真题 [文章局部]考试大-全国训练类网站(.Examda
com) 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 (吝啬的) 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
[单词学习] portray vt
描绘 victim n
受害者,受骗者,受灾者 property n
所有物,财产 spur v
鞭策,鼓舞,敦促 legislation n
法律,法规 [课后作业]采集者退散 请翻译如下 4 个句子 1
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