单选题
The president explained that the purpose of taxation was to ______ government spending.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 从句意上分析，finance(为……提供资金，如：The government will finance the building of the new roads with the taxes it collects．政府将用它所征得的税收为修建这条新公路提供资金。)符合题意。其他几项的意思分别为：“使膨胀，详述，扩张”；“扩大，放大”；“做预算，编入预算”。