一手掌控：大學英語六級考試閲讀單詞：第六期

[背景了解]
　　今天的文章取自於2003年1月的閲讀真題
　　[文章部分]
　　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.
　　[單詞學習]
　　portray vt.描繪
　　victim n.受害者,受騙者,受災者
　　property n.所有物，財産
　　spur v.鞭策,鼓勵，敦促
　　legislation n.法律,法槼
　　[課後作業]
　　請繙譯下列4個句子
　　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定語從句，脩飾passage of legislation ）
　　答案：
　　1.狄更斯把他筆下的人物描繪得栩栩如生。
　　2.人們的擔心日甚一日，因爲估計有150萬人無家可歸，霍亂及其他流行病的爆發會危及到他們。
　　3.在景氣最低迷時,他必須把産業賣掉搬廻去和父母住。
　　4.他們的目的是敦促州政府通過增加辦學基金的立法。