247. Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.>>

(A) proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize>>

(B) proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and for subsidizing>>

(C) proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize>>

(D) has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions, and to subsidize>>

(E) was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization

新版的解释：

D. unclear whether only one budget is being reduced to subsidize the other activity;

不懂在讲什么请大家帮忙，E也是这么说道。。。谢谢！

楼上没有仔细看懂句子,原句的意思proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

d就是说减少了前者是为了后者

谢谢，原句是指，

1)减少（其他），来资助艺术。

还是2)较少资助艺术的钱，来资助其他项目呢。

觉得好像A 不定式的修饰对象不清楚。

看了这个结构就都明白了~谢谢啦