2014年高考英语阅读理解素材：31 美国小镇竞选镇长投硬币分胜负素材 .docVIP

美国小镇竞选镇长投硬币分胜负 据美国媒体11月20日报道，爱达荷州小镇阿尔比恩近日的镇长竞选不分胜负，最终通过投掷硬币决定谁当下任镇长。 ? KMVT CBS 11 reports that the town of Albion, Idaho recently decided who would be mayor for the next term with...a coin toss. ? This past Election Day saw the 120 voters of Albion split a vote down the middle in a race between incumbent（现任的） Mayor Don Bowden and his challenger, John Davis. We procured a calculator at great expense here at Yahoo and after a few hours of number crunching came to the conclusion that this means 60 votes came in for Bowden, and 60 for Davis. ? [来源:学科网ZXXK][来源:Z§xx§k.Com]KMVT explains that according to Idaho law if there a tie between two candidates, a final decision will be made by the flip of a coin, which is better than Hawaiis hot dog eating contest or Wyomings who can keep thine hand on thine carriage longest challenge. ? Now, and this is true as far as we can tell, the right to call heads or tails was won by Mayor Don Bowden when he was the closer of the two candidates to guess what number City Treasurer Mary Yeamen was thinking. Lets guess that she wrote the number down and that it wasnt just kept in her head, because that would make us question this very respectable political process. ?[来源:学,科,网] To paraphrase（释义） The Hunger Games, and were not just randomly mentioning it to help with our web traffic, how DARE you, the odds were ever in Mayor Bowdens [来源:学*科*网Z*X*X*K]favor. He correctly picked tails and now will serve a third term, knowing that literally half of the town didnt want him back. He told KMVT, Im relieved that weve finally done it. I would have been good with it either way... so yeah, its historic. I dont know how many times in the past that its happened, but its an interesting happening. ? The coin, a pure silver dollar, was provided by D.L. Evans Bank and has been donated to the Albion Historical Society where it will be put on display.[来源:学科网]