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"I wouldn’t be here today if not for the generosity of strangers," said Michael Moritz, while announcing a major donation to Oxf

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问题     "I wouldn’t be here today if not for the generosity of strangers," said Michael Moritz, while announcing a major donation to Oxford University. A former Time magazine reporter, Mr. Moritz left journalism to become one of the most successful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Through Sequoia Capital, the firm he joined in 1986 and has led for many years, Mr. Moritz was an early investor in Google, Yahoo, PayPal and Linkedln. His personal fortune is estimated at well over $ 1 billion. Oxford University announced last Wednesday that he and his wife, the novelist Harriet Heyman, donated ￡75 million, or $115 million, to fund a new scholarship program aimed at providing financial aid to students from low-income backgrounds. Behind the headlines about the size of the gift was a family story of immigration, education and a sense of obligation that transcended generations.
    "I grew up in Cardiff, went to an ordinary comprehensive school, and was the only pupil in my year to go to Oxbridge," Mr. Moritz explained. "My father was plucked as a teenager from Nazi Germany and was able to attend a very good school in London on a scholarship. " In an interview afterward, Mr. Moritz said that his father, Alfred, had grown up in Munich, where his father was a judge who lost his post when the Nazis came to power. Mr. Moritz’s mother, Doris, was part of the Kindertransport, a rescue effort that took about 9,300 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Britain shortly before the outbreak of World War II. "My father’s cousin, Fritz Ursell, was also rescued from terrible circumstances. When he came to Britain, he also benefited from scholarships, and grew up to become a member of the Royal Society," said Mr. Moritz.
    "It is all too easy not to remember," said Mr. Moritz, who was a history major and the editor of Oxford’s student literary magazine, as an undergraduate before completing an M. B. A. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In May, Mr. Mortiz announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare medical condition which is incurable. But he preferred not to name the disease. "I wanted to be open with my partners and with the public. But I didn’t want every ghoul on the Internet following me. "
    Charlotte Anderson, a second-year student studying German at Oxford and the first person in her family to go to a university, said that anxiety about taking on debt had nearly kept her from accepting the offer from the school. "It’s great to think that future students who follow me can do so without the fear that I went through," she said while attending the news conference. Asked whether the university’s campaign to finance student scholarships through private donations rather than government funding meant that Oxford was giving up efforts to secure more public support, the university’s chancellor, Chris Patten, a former Conservative minister to Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, joked that he was "no longer allowed to have any political views."
What is the author’s attitude towards the university’s collecting private donations?
选项 A、Indifferent.
B、Objective.
C、Suspicious.
D、Supportive.
答案B
解析 观点态度题。文章以介绍莫里茨先生的捐款为开头，继而引出了这位成功人士的家庭背景及个人健康状况。最后，是牛津大学学生的态度和校长的不作评论。虽然全文看上去是对私人捐款的正面描述，但总体来说，作者还是以新闻报道的语气，客观地对这次大额捐款做出介绍，并没有表现出对牛津大学这一举措明显的支持态度。因此，[B]最符合作者的态度，故为答案。文章自始至终，都没有表现出任何负面的评价，因此排除[A]“漠视”和[C]“怀疑”两种态度；同样，作者也没有使用任何语言来表述他本人对莫里茨先生捐款等内容的支持态度，故排除[D]。
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