145. Most state constitutions now mandate that the state budget be balanced each year.

(A) mandate that the state budget be balanced

(B) mandate the state budget to be balanced

(C) mandate that the state budget will be balanced

(D) have a mandate for a balanced state budget（A）

(E) have a mandate to balance the state budget

When mandate is used as a verb to mean “make it mandatory,’ it must be followed by that and a verb in the subjunctive mood, as in A, the best answer: mandate that x be balanced. Choice B uses the ungrammatical mandate x to be balanced. Choice C inappropriately uses the future indicative, will be, rather than the subjunctive. Choices D and E use wordy and imprecise expressions in place of the verb mandate: neither have a mandate for a balanced... budget nor have a mandate to balance the... budget makes clear that the requirement is made by the constitution. It is also unclear in D whether each year refers to the mandating or the balancing.

问：have a mandate for a balanced state budget each year

ETS说：“whether each year refers to the mandating or the balancing ” 但是，each year时间副词只能修饰动词或句子，好象for后面没有动词可以修饰。

have a mandate each year is ok！

a balanced state budget each year 说不通啊！

谁来解释一下，谢谢！！

我觉得是修饰balanced；

首先选择这道题目的时候，前面三个如果有一个没有语病，后面两个就不可能成为正确答案，有了动词不用而用mandate这样的抽象名词是不合适不简洁的，所以就排除了D/E