Fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear.[音频]Billions in Aid Given to US Schools with Few RequirementsThe United States federal government is giving a record amount of pandemic aid to the nation’s schools.President Joe Biden’s administration is hoping schools use the money to improve deep problems within the nation’s school system. But manydistrictssay they have more ________ problems to solve first.Detroit, Michigan, is a poor city with a long-struggling school system. The city is using the federal money to fix buildings with structural problems. The district is also using some of the government money tohiremore teachers, have smaller classes and provide more mental health services. But at least half of the $1.3 billion in federal aid is being used to repair school buildings.Nikolai Vitti leads Detroit Public Schools. He said, “For decades, we have beeninequitablyfunded to deal with the________needs that poverty and racial injustice have created in our city.” With the pandemic money, he said, the district will finally be able to work toward fixing the problem.The Biden administration has pushed schools to make large changes with the money. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has called it a time for big ideas. He said districts could use the money to ________ inequality.But many large city districts are putting the pandemic money towards short-term needs. Schools have used the aid to hire medical workers, put more books in________and bring back art classes.So far, there is little ________ of major change, said Marguerite Roza. She is a school finance expert with Georgetown University. Part of the problem, she said, is that the aid was given to schools with few requirements about how to spend it.The money was given as “________checks to every one of these districts,” Roza said. “And many are going to do what they already know how to do.”The pandemic aid is bigger than anything American schools have seen before. It ________ $190 billion. That is more than four times the amount the Education Department spends on schools in a usual year.Congress has sent the ________ to schools in three rounds since the start of the pandemic. The last and largest round totals $123 billion.But the government is doing little to study how schools are using the money. Some states are required to ________ spending plans to the federal government, but many are not. Some Republicans in Congress have pushed for a new law that would give the public more information about how districts are using the money.Reporters withThe Associated Presslooked at how much money was given to almost every district in the country. They________more than $155 billion sent to states since last year.