28. In the view of State Treasurer Mike Coffman, the educational budget shortage is ________.
A) unavoidable
B) unthinkable
C) insolvable
D) irreversible(B)
29. Why did Coffman request an investigation?
A) To see if there was a deliberate cover-up of the problem.
B) To find out the extent of the consequences of the case.
C) To make sure that the school principals were innocent.
D) To stop the voters approving the $212 million bong issue.(A)
30. Three high school students started a website in order to ________.
A) attract greater public attention to their needs
B) appeal to the public for contributions and donations
C) expose officials who neglected their duties
D) keep people properly informed of the crisis(D)
这篇短文讲述的是学校资金短缺事件。全文共十个小段，第一段从丹佛某社区发起运动说起，交代了事件基本信息：1380万美元的预算短缺，而后引用某位学生父母对学校表示物质支持的原话(we can help ease their financial burden, we will)。这个段落有这样一个特点，即事件本身只是在句中附带提到，叙述的重点在于社区对与此事相关的学校、教师的支持。这也暗示了后文的叙述方向不会是对资金短缺事件的原委的叙述，而是各方对此事的反应。从全文来看，包括社区、教师、官方、企业以及学生的反应。
接下来的第二段叙述了教师们对社区支持的反应(grateful)，而后用教师们的想法传达出资金短缺事件的解决难度(impossible for then to solve this problem，社区支持不可能解决问题)。
下一段进一步透露出事件的其他信息：发现时间(last month)，并交代了州官员的反应：惊诧(Nobody would have imagined something happening like this at this level)。下三小段继续叙述官方的进一步行动：为教师工资提供贷款(9.8 million loan that enabled the payroll)，从学生活动资金帐户中提出170万美元(officials also took $1.7 million)，调查该地区财务(begun investigating the district’s finances)。
最后的四段分别交代了学生父母、企业和学生们的反应。父母们为学校购买日常教学器具(buying classroom supplies and offering to pay for groceries and utilities)，企业捐助，如一家雪佛兰经销商捐助一万美元，同时免除校车租金(A Chevrolet dealership donated $10,000 and forgave the district’s $10,750 bill)，IBM捐助了实物(4,500 packs of paper)。之后的一段简单解释了募捐的原因。最后一段是学生们的行动：建立网站随时发布该事件的进展情况(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)
题目问Vrain校区发生了什么事情。从第一段可知，Vrain校区发生了资金短缺($13.8 million budget shortage)，而通读全篇后可知，这一难题的影响非常严重。
A，发生了严重的财务困难。资金短缺(budget shortage)也就是财务困难，可以选A。
B，那里许多学校管理不善。此选项考查对the Vrain school District tries to solve a $13.8 million budget shortage blamed on mismanagement一句的理解。前半句的理解应该不成问题，意思是该校区力图解决一个1380万的预算缺口。后面的blamed on mismanagement是理解的关键，blamed是个被动语态，这里省略了is，而这个句子的完整形式应该是个which引导的从句：shortage which is blamed on mismanagement。Blamed sth on sth 是把某事物的错误归因于另一事物，在句中就是“预算短缺的原因被归咎于管理不善”。这样的话，管理不善的对象就是预算而不是学校。
C，该校区的许多教师计划离职。文中引用了一位学生家长的话：we really don’t want to lose them because of this，表达了人们对预算短缺可能导致教师离去的后果。但文中没有指出教师是否计划(planning)离职，或者是否有“很多”(many)教师有此想法。
D，许多管理人员遭到解雇。文中没有相关叙述。
