本篇文章主要讲的是纽约学校丢失了上百甚至数千台电脑，这些电脑是为了让学生使用的。电脑丢失的原因可能是因为被盗了或者是坏掉了，审计通过调查，但是原因还没有查出来。其他学校也出现了类似的情况。下面前程百利小编带大家一块看一下这篇托福听力背景材料中出现的一些不常见的单词。
New York City public schools are missing hundreds and possibly thousands of computers, due to poor record keeping, theft, corruption(贪污), or some combo(联合体). Larry Greenemeier reports.
New York City’s Department of Education cannot account for(对…做出解释) 1,800 missing computers. Hundreds more new devices(设备) have sat in boxes instead of being delivered to students.
Troubling for several reasons. The comptroller’s(审计官) audit(审计) that discovered these problems included only a handful (一把)of the city’s nearly 2,000 schools. Whether the current case is due to shoddy (假冒的)record keeping, theft, institutional (制度上的)corruption or some combination of all three, you have to wonder what a system-wide audit (审计)would turn up.
The Department of Ed disputes (争论)some of the audit’s findings, of course. And they have a point when they say that they don’t have the IT resources to track(追踪) and support all of these devices.(设备)
But instead of spending nearly $200 million in recent years on overpriced(定价过高) Apple and Lenovo gear they could have invested in cheaper network-based devices like Chromebooks, and more staff to manage them.
Schools across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J., learned a similar lesson the hard way. Last summer they took back the laptops(笔记本电脑) they’d given to students and locked the machines in a storage closet. At least the taxpayers(纳税人) there know where their money went.
疑难词汇：
Combo n. 联合体;结合物;小型爵士乐团
Comptroller n. 审计官;监查官
Audit vi. 审计;[审计] 查帐n. 审计;[审计] 查帐
Taxpayer n. 纳税人;所收租金只够支付地产税的建筑物
Overpriced adj. 定价过高的n. 对…定价过高(overprice的过去分词)
account for对…负有责任;对…做出解释;说明……的原因;导致;(比例)占
好了，以上就是前程百利小编从托福听力背景材料中为大家整理的一些生单词，希望在备考的路上助大家一臂之力，大家一定要用心积累。最后，小编祝大家在托福考试中取得好成绩！
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