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Madonna became the first celebrity to make a donation to charities helping the victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon at
Madonna became the first celebrity to make a donation to charities helping the victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon at
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2012-01-14
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Madonna became the first celebrity to make a donation to charities helping the victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks in September. She gave around $ 1 million—the proceeds from three Los Angeles concerts—to children orphaned by the disaster, the singer leading her audience of 20 000 in prayer.
Ironically, of all the many faces Madonna presents to the world, the one she tries most assiduously to disguise is that of successful businesswoman. She is quoted as having once said: "Part of the reason I’m successful is because I’m a good businesswoman but I don’t think it necessary for people to know that. "
The girl who arrived in New York with a fistful of dollars is—and has been—a publisher, music mogul, TV executive, merchandising magnate, film producer and is one of the richest woman on the planet. She is every inch the conventional self-made tycoon (企业界大亨): cautious in her investments, conservative in her spending, controlling every part of her multi-million dollar empire.
Indeed Madonna is a classic capitalist—conforming to all the rules, never putting a foot wrong, running her life like clockwork. Like a typical cigar-chomping ( 口咬雪茄) company chairman, she is the first to arrive and the last to leave while every evening she sits down and lists her goals for the next day.
The girl who lived off popcorn and dressed in hand-me-downs has no intention of squandering her fortune, keeping well clear of the extravagant and the speculative. Unlike her adventurous public image, Madonna is a prudent investor who has eschewed the stock market for the safety of interest-bearing government bonds. She was not one of those who got their fingers burnt in the Internet bubble—indeed she was so slow out of the starting blocks that she had to sue for the rights to her domain name, madonna, com—preferring to keep her other assets in property and art. While paintings may be her ’’sin," as she says: "Financially it is an excellent investment, as well as something sumptuous to admire every day. "
However, her shrewd approach has led her to lose numerous paintings because she refused to pay the asking price. It is now the same with property. When she first came to live in London she was so shocked by the high prices that on several occasions she lost out on homes she liked because her offers were unrealistically low.
Like other self-reliant and self-made millionaires, Madonna believes that work has its own dignity. Thus, although she sends her maternal grandmother Elsie Fortin money every month and has bought her and other elderly relatives TVs and other home comforts,Madonna is reluctant to featherbed family and friends. (418 words)
Madonna is everything EXCEPT______.
选项
A、a celebrity
B、an investor
C、a businesswoman
D、a stateswoman
答案
D
解析
麦当娜不是女政治家。
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