【正文】 t met. Traditionally, foundations have not been as invasive, says Dadisman. They didn39。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。t think it39。re in Sweden or France, it39。 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。re saying, ‘ I want to make big things happen.’ 對(duì)應(yīng)題目： 7. The author mentions 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。t what it used to be.：時(shí)間強(qiáng)對(duì)比的暗示 本句推斷出了第六題的答案。 s Los Altos Hills and a burning question: what to do with the rest of a 50 million fortune? After a few years of doling out money to traditional charitieshis alma mater, the United WayKirsch 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(duì)應(yīng)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。s population will benefit from knowledge explosion 10. The last two paragraphs of the passage can be perceived as __________. (A) the summary of the whole passage (B) the introduction of the concept “ digital divide” (C) the prediction about America in the new century (D) the warning of issues behind technological progress 本題是結(jié)構(gòu)功能題 8. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? (A) Both Compton39。s true of endofthecentury America, it is immeasurably worse for much of the rest of the world. As . Secretary General Kofi Annan remarked in a recent speech, “ Half the worlds population has never even made, or received, a telephone call.” 我們要關(guān)注隱藏在名人引言后的含義，而不是具體引言本身。d have to be wealthy. Today, any teenager with a CD player (or even an FM radio) can hear almost any music of his of her choosing, performed by top musicians, virtually at will. The same youngster could, at a whim, look at tens of thousands of paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Today：時(shí)間強(qiáng)對(duì)比 Think of laws forbidding anyone to teach slaves to read. Think of Hitler39。s friend. 考點(diǎn)： 圍繞主題找到 句子在上下文中的作用 、意義 Nor is it just information that is so profusely available. Nor：否定 Profusely：豐盛 Think of the difficulties confronting a 19thcentury music lover. He could, of course, hear local folk artists. 19thcentury ：時(shí)間強(qiáng)對(duì)比 But if he had a fondness for, say, Bach or Beethoven, he39。m starting to feel almost like I know the place, even though I39。s downloaded 75 to 100 pages of information, from a score of sites, on that West African country— information on everything from the local currency, political situation and weather to the latest local news and the street address of the American embassy. 本段又出現(xiàn)了一個(gè)故事，具體的故事可以略看，關(guān)鍵是隱藏在故事后的道理。s modest book collection formed the nucleus of the Library of only does my own house now contain m