题目选项分析

Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap,the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.

Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap,the city's mayor proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent,the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.