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
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich an
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich an
admin
2014-03-02
108
问题
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich and powerful would be more accurate.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is better known for his activities outside the academy. This week be sold Africana. com, a website he created with a fellow Harvard University professor, to Time Warner. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed, though the Wall street Journal pegged the price at more than $10 million, with Gates reaping up to $1 million. Time warmer will incorporate the site, a portal with news and information ’about people of African descent, into America Online when the two merge as expected. The sense is that Gates got a very good deal. The site is a rich source of scholarship but hardly a rich source of revenue.
As recently as the late 1980s Gates, who turns 50 this week, was an obscure professor, penning books on literary theory only a graduate student could love. Now he can’t be avoided: He hosted a series about Africa on public television, writes occasional articles for the New Yorker, and even advises the Gore presidential campaign. He counts director Steven Spielberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and President Clinton as friends. "They’re not intimate friends," he insists.
Indeed, Gates has evolved into a kind of expert on everything African-American. "He remains the go-to person on the state of African-American affairs," said Perry Steinberg, head of American Program Bureau, a lecture agency. The 30 or so speeches Gates delivers each year are another source of income for the professor.
With fame comes controversy. Several other black intellectuals have taken him to task for not being confrontational enough. Gates has heard it before. "Me? Critics? Oh, what a shock." But he considers himself more a descendent of historian and educator W. E. B. Du Bois than of Malcolm X. His ultimate goal is to build the field of Afro-American studies. "Fifty years from now I want there to be at least 10 great centers of Afro-American studies," he says.
If working as a consultant on Spielberg’s historical film Amistad or giving A1 Gore advice helps, so be it.
In Paragraph 5, the phrase "have taken him to task for.." most probably means ______.
选项
A、have blamed him for a certain fault
B、have made him pay for his mistake
C、have had him do an assignment
D、have trusted him with a certain job
答案
A
解析
第五段首句的意思是:随着出名,也引来了争议。好几个黑人学者责怪他(在与美国主流文化方面的)对抗还不够。因此正确答案是A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/M3QO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Insuchachanging,complexsocietyformerlysimplesolutionstoinformationalneedsbecomecomplicated.Manyoflife’sproblems
Duringthenormaldevelopmentofself,achildisaffectedbycertaininfluentialfactors.1._____.Infantsformanattachmentwi
Eversincehumanshaveinhabitedtheearth,theyhavemadeuseofvariousformsofcommunication.Generally,theexpressionoft
Thoughthisbookwaswrittenmorethan50yearsago,ithasarelativelycontemporaryappeal,andits______plottingwillamusem
Inmanaginginformationresources,themediummaybethekeytoaneffectivesystem.Themediumisavehicle,atool,oraconta
TheUnitedStateshashistoricallyhadhigherratesofmarriagethanthoseofotherindustrializedcountries.Thecurrentannual
Advertisingispaid,nonpersonalcommunicationthatisdesignedtocommunicateinacreativemanner,throughtheuseofmassor
Mr.Greenreceivedan______letterthreateningtoexposeherprivatelifeifsherefusedtopay$10,000.
Sometravelersbelievecarriersintentionallygroundhalf-filledflightstocutcost,onlytofilluplaterplanes.Mysteriousc
随机试题
我们预料我们的计划会遇到一些人的反对。
女性,26岁。腕踝关节疼痛半年,入夏以来在阳光下行走面部出现红斑,于某年7月就诊。体检:头发稀疏,面颈部有不规则圆形皮损,边缘略高出皮面,口腔有多个浅表溃疡,肝肋下0.5cm,脾肋下刚及。化验:LE细胞阳性,按美国风湿病学修订标准符合SLE诊断关于S
正常情况下,机体排泄的尿液中不含
重度营养不良患儿调整饮食,开始供给热量应为
A.瓜蒌B.白芍C.丹参D.甘草E.乌头根据中药“十八反”与甘遂相反的中药是()。
关于工资差别的说法,正确的是()。
按(1)(2)步折叠后,按(3)的图案剪纸,展开后的图案是()。
一位药物专家只从G、H、J、K、L这5种不同的鱼类药物中选择3种,并且只从W、X、Y、Z这4种不同的草类药物中选择2种,来配制一副药方。他的选择必须符合下列条件:(1)如果他选G,就不能选H,也不能选Y;(2)他不能选H,除非他选K;
基于买方的购买历史及行为分析,进行针对性的信息推送,属于()的典型应用。
Johnwasinanurseryschoolforoneyear.
最新回复
(
0
)