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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 main idea of the passage?
选项 A、An Oxford graduate who wants to help.
B、How education can change a person’s life.
C、An immigration family’s story of success.
D、A large amount of private donation to Oxford.
答案D
解析 主旨大意题。文章的大量篇幅都用来描述莫里茨先生的个人捐款。第二段是他的家庭背景，意在指出奖学金对学生的影响和帮助。最后一段中，学生夏洛特的态度也是在说明私人捐助将会使来自贫困家庭的学生受益。因此，总体看来，文章是围绕一笔捐赠给牛津的私人捐款展开的，故[D]为正确答案。虽然莫里茨先生是牛津大学的毕业生，但文章重点是围绕奖学金这一主题展开，而不是把他作为主人公来记述其事迹贡献，因此排除[A]；文章并没有通过各种实例说明教育对人生的改变，因此排除[B]；同样，文章没有围绕某个移民家庭的奋斗史展开，故排除[C]。
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