首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Philanthropy It has become an American tradition that those who attain great wealth return some of it to the public through
Philanthropy It has become an American tradition that those who attain great wealth return some of it to the public through
admin
2022-05-07
73
问题
Philanthropy
It has become an American tradition that those who attain great wealth return some of it to the public through philanthropy. An early example of this was the generosity of Amos Lawrence of Massachusetts, a wealthy merchant who in the 1830s and afterwards contributed much money for famine relief in Ireland. He also donated generously to educational and other humanitarian causes.
In the early years of the twentieth century several men who had amassed vast【C1】________likewise became great philanthropists. Andrew Carnegie, an exceptionally energetic man,【C2】________has begun working twelve hours a day when he was only fourteen years old,【C3】________one of the world’s richest men by pioneering in the steel【C4】________. After his retirement in 1900 he devoted his time and his wealth to the【C5】________of free public libraries. He also set up foundations for medical research and【C6】________world peace. Carnegie’s belief, as he expressed it in an essay, was【C7】________the wealthy person must "consider all surplus revenues【C8】________come to him simply as "trust funds" which is strictly bound as a matter of【C9】________to administer in the manner best calculated to produce the most【C10】________results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere【C11】________and agent for his poorer brethren. "
John@D@Rockefeller, who also began as a poor boy, became【C12】________rich through oil refineries and other enterprises. In his【C13】________age, in the early 1900"s, he began to donate millions for beneficial【C14】________. The various Rockefeller Foundations support research as well as【C15】________causes in the United States and in other parts of the world. Rockefeller funds are now fighting hunger through the so-called "green revolution, " whereby new agricultural techniques have greatly multiplied the yield of food crops in Mexico, India, Pakistan, and parts of Africa.
Through the Ford Foundation, and based on automobile profits, Henry Ford Ⅱ donated $500 million in 1950 to universities and hospitals for improving education and health. This likewise became a world-famous foundation, whose activities have spread far and wide. Some of this money was effectively spend fight cholera and typhus in far-off Nepal.
【C6】
选项
答案
for
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/7iMO777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI二级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI二级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
TheEnglishPubVocabularyandExpressionstaverndartsboardontaphardtackalehousepooltable
Americans’MarriageandFamilyMarriageintheUnitedStatestendstolookmorelikeserialmonogamythanlifetimepartnershi
Whichofthefollowingistrueaccordingtothestatement?
In2006,asmallstudybyresearchersatIndianaUniversityfoundthatteenagerswhoplayedviolentvideogamesshowedhigherle
Britishwebusersarespending65%moretimeonlinethanthreeyearsago,accordingtoasurveyofnet【C1】______.Theaverag
Therewasatimewhentheconceptofcreativitywasonlyassociatedwithwriters,painters,musiciansandsimilarpeopleinarti
Hewasfinallyenrolledintoamemberofthecollegeafterayear’shardworking.
AnIndiananthropologist,ChandraThapar,madeastudyofforeigncultures,whichhadcustomssimilarto【C1】______ofhisnative
Helostallhismoney.Theonlythinghecoulddowastocallhiswifeforhelpatthismoment.
Anytroopofwildanimalsshouldbeapproachedwarily.
随机试题
A.3年B.5年C.不超过5年D.7年进口药品注册证的有效期为()。
根据《建设项目环境影响评价资质管理办法》和有关文件,()属于甲级评价机构应当具备的条件之一。
()是在一定的经济发展阶段,一定收入水平的基础上,国内和国际在零售市场上用于购买商品的货币支付能力。
《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十三个五年规划的建议》提出,发展的出发点和落脚点是:
社会改造主义课程论的代表人物是()
已知关于x的一元二次方程8x2+(m+1)x+m-7=0有两个负数根,那么实数m的取值范围是()。
Nosooner(had)ProfessorSmith(begun)tospeak(when)somenoise(arose)fromtheaudience.
Thereare______inthesea.
A、Theythinkexactlythesameway.B、Theyarenotphysicallyseparated.C、Theysharemostoftheirvitalorgans.D、Theymakedec
Everyeducationsystemisinevitablyamirrorthatreflectsthecultureofthesocietyitisapartof.InmanyWesternsoci
最新回复
(
0
)