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【正文】 irsch got ambitious. He set up his own foundation to benefit everyone, funding research on everything from cancer to nearearth objects. It is guaranteed that we will be hit by an asteroid sometime in the future, perhaps before we end this phone conversation. Kirsch explains. It would cost several billion lives, and we can save those lives for 50 million, which is less than the cost of a private jet. I call it enlightened selfinterest. 對應題目 6. Why does the author introduce some American millionaires at the beginning of the passage? (A) To introduce the rapid growth of American millionaires. (B) To show how they bee millionaires. (C) To display the relationship between business and philanthropy. (D) To explain their changing attitude towards charities. Example 功能題 Startups：創(chuàng)業(yè)公司 dole out 捐款 alma mater（拉丁詞）母校 alumna 校友 alumni 男校友 alumnae 女校友 selfinterest 謀求私利 American philanthropy isn39。t what it used to be. American philanthropy isn39。t what it used to be.：時間強對比的暗示 本句推斷出了第六題的答案。 Gone are the days when old money was doled out by bureaucrats from mahoganypaneled rooms. More people are giving out more money than ever before, at much younger ages, and to a much wider variety of causes. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan39。s call for private charity to replace government largesse was greeted with hoots of liberal derisionand an outbreak of giving. Largesse：慷慨 Hoot：嘲諷 Derision：嘲諷 Outbreak：爆發(fā) The number of private foundations rose from 22, 000 in 1980 to 55, 000 today. They now dole out about billion a year, a 700 percent increase since 1980. And many are the offspring of capitalists, who bring the language of business to charity. Vanessa Kirsch, president and founder of the entrepreneurial charity New Profit Inc., says, There39。s this new breed of social entrepreneurs ing out of Harvard Business School or failed dots, and they39。re saying, ‘ I want to make big things happen.’ 對應題目： 7. The author mentions Ronald Reagan39。s call for private charity to replace government largesse as . (A) Ronald Reagan was the then American President (B) his call was severely criticized by the public (C) Ronald Reagan first understood the significance of private foundations (D) his call received mixed responses but pointed the way for philanthropy 注： first, all, only not at all, most, never 等絕對選項不選 如果一個答案能夠包容另一個答案，我們通常選擇可以包容其他答案的那一個。 8. The expression who bring the language of business to charity from the sentence And many are the offspring of capitalists, who bring the language of business to charity. (Para. 2) means . (A) who run charities in the same way as they run businesses (B) who uphold the principles of business in managing charities (C) who manage the money they send to charities (D) who think philanthropists should receive training Their outlook is increasingly global, in the Gates mold. The share of funding that the 1, 000 largest foundations devote to international causes jumped from percent in 1999 to percent in 2020. And while the . government is often criticized for stingy foreign aid (well under 1 percent of GNP each year), the same can39。t be said of private donors, who now give away percent of each year. No nation es even remotely close to the . on these things, says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. If you39。re in Sweden or France, it39。s something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans don39。t think it39。s enough to say, ‘ I gave at the office with taxes.’ Sweden or France：出現(xiàn)多個地點， 地點強對比， 有可能是考點所在 9. Which of the following can be concluded from Scott Walker39。s ment(Para. 3)? (A) Charities in European countries are run by the governmental department. (B)America should earnestly learn the practice of charity from France and Sweden. (C) European countries should learn from American charity. (D) The concept of American charity is different from that of European ones. To be sure, business and philanthropy are old bedfellows in the United States. The Rockefellers, the Carnegies and the Fords set the mold. But many were what Mark Dowie, author of American Foundations: An Investigative History, calls s. o. b. s patrons of symphonies, operas, ballets, and museums and hospitals where rich people go to die. The new foundations are more like quasipublic trusts progressive institutions of change, argues Dowie. The new movers and shakers of American charity are more likely to be flashy TV titans like Ted Turner. The story of how Turner gave away a billion is a founding legend of this class. In a cab on his way to make a speech at the United Nations, the cable titan, sick of official . reluctance to pay . dues, decided to pony up 1 billion himself. This shamed Washington and inspired imitators. It is a lot more personalityoriented in this culture of new wealth, says Ellen Dadisman, vice president of the Council on Foundations. It39。s sort of like wealth meets People magazine. pony up：一次性付清 In Silicon Vallsey, the new fashion is called venture philanthropy. According to one survey, 83 percent of valley households give to charity, pared with 69 percent nationally. But they prefer to invest, not give. And to attract investors, fundraisers promise handson management of the nonprofits they support. handson management：參與管理方式 nonprofit 非盈利機構(gòu) They demand seats on the board, set performance goals and plan an exit strategy in case expectations aren39。t met. Traditionally, foundations have not been as invasive, says Dadisman. They didn39。t go to the nonprofit and say, “How much are you paying for rent? Why are you using these oldfashioned puters?’ It may be invasive, but if it works it could help save the world. Even from asteroids. 10. Which of the following is NOT true according t