真题分析 四

　　2002年9月 section2 6-10

　　Reading Objectives: 进一步理解example的功能，熟悉按时间顺序写作的方式

　　Bill Gates is not the only American entrepreneur with business plan to save the world.There are thousands. Consider Steve Kirsch, who had just turned 35 when he had everything he could want.Adobe, the software giant, had just purchased one of his startups, Eframe, The sale made Kirsch very rich, with a share in a private jet, an estate in California' 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 charities-his alma mater, the United Way-Kirsch got ambitious. He set up his own foundation to benefit "everyone", funding research on everything from cancer to near-earth 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 self-interest."

　　对应题目

　　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 become millionaires.

　　(C) To display the relationship between business and philanthropy.

　　(D) To explain their changing attitude towards charities.

　　Example功能题

　　Startups：创业公司

　　dole out捐款

　　alma mater(拉丁词)母校

　　alumna校友

　　alumni 男校友

　　alumnae女校友

　　self-interest　谋求私利

　　American philanthropy isn't what it used to be.

　　American philanthropy isn't what it used to be.：时间强对比的暗示

　　本句推断出了第六题的答案。

　　Gone are the days when old money was doled out by bureaucrats from mahogany-paneled 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 Reagan's call for private charity to replace government largesse was greeted with hoots of liberal derision-and an outbreak of giving.

　　Largesse：慷慨

　　Hoot：嘲讽

　　Derision：嘲讽

　　Outbreak：爆发

　　The number of private foundations rose from 22, 000 in 1980 to 55, 000 today. They now dole out about 23.3 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, "There's this new breed of social entrepreneurs coming out of Harvard Business School or failed dot-coms, and they're saying, ‘I want to make big things happen.’"

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