大学英语：The cities use these funds for

9. The cities use these funds for education, police and fire department, public works and municipal buildings.

　　work 用作单数时，通常指工作，例如：I have a lot of work to do this afternoon.

　　用作复数时，works则指　1）著作：The Complete Works of Mao Zetong（《毛泽东全集》）　2）工程：public works（公共建筑工程，市政工程）

10. They say that it spends too much on useless and impractical programs.

　　spend too much (money) on sth的意思是“把太多的钱花在……”，例如：He would spend some money on books every month..（他每个月都花一些钱买书。）

　　我们常常会碰到的另一个词组spend some time (in) doing sth.的意思是“花时间做某事”，例如：He spent a lot of time doing the experiment.（他花了很多时间做实验。）