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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."
It can be inferred from the passage that the family background of Mr. Moritz
选项 A、gave him the motive to study hard to be successful.
B、showed how scholarship changed his family members’ life.
C、illustrated that his family emphasized on education very much.
D、proved that immigration family can also make great achievements.
答案B
解析 推理判断题。根据题干关键词family background of Mr．Moritz定位至第一段最后一句及第二段。第一段最后一句提到了莫里茨先生捐赠的背后是一个家族的故事，在接下来的第二段，作者给出了他的家庭背景一他的父亲、爷爷、母亲以及堂叔都是依靠奖学金才得到受教育的机会。因此，是奖学金和教育改变了他的这些家庭成员的命运。[B]与文章内容相符，故为答案。文章第二段没有提到这些背景给他以激励，因此排除[A]；该段提到莫里茨先生有不少家人都依靠奖学金才得到了受到良好教育的机会，但并没有说这个家庭本身主观上对教育十分重视，因此排除[C]；综合全文可知，文章第二段的内容并不是突出移民家庭的成功，而是将重点放在了奖学金上，因此排除[D]。
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