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, advisor to presidents, and friend to the rich an
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, advisor to presidents, and friend to the rich an
admin
2012-10-23
66
问题
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, advisor 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 he 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 Warner 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.
What is true about Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. ?
选项
A、He is barely qualified to teach in Harvard.
B、He is an American of African descent.
C、History and education are his minors.
D、President Gore is among his friends.
答案
B
解析
本题可参照第五段内容,他认为自己与其是Malcolm X的后裔不如是 W.E.B.Du Bois的后裔。因此B项“他是个非洲裔美国人”为正确答案。A,C两项在原文中未提到,D与原文混淆。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/x19O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Researchersdisagreewhetherthe"useitorloseit"philosophyholdsforcognitiveaging,butthereisoneevidencethatkeepin
TheEuropeanCommissionissueda______decisiononOct.29permittinganalliancebetweenUnitedAirlines,DeutscheLufthansaa
TheIndiansrisesoonasitislight,thechildrenrundowntotherivertoswim,thewomangotothecreektobringfreshwater
China’sgrowthisnotuniformlyhigh.Likeeveryothereconomyintheworld.China’sisshapedbyitsgeography,inthiscasean
It’seasiertodismissreportsoflowemployeemoralethanfacethefactsandact______.
Governmentisabasicmeansoforderinghumanrelations.【C1】______itscitizens,governmentgenerally【C2】______certainwell-organ
Noneofstudentsintheclasslikesthemistress,whoisusedtobeing______ofeverythingtheydo.
71.Christianityisthelong-exitingreligionmainlyfoundintheWesternworld,inwhichitisGodthatcreateseverythingint
Tounderstandbettertheforcesthatcontrolhumanagingandlongevity,wehavetriedtodeterminewhetherthelongerlifespano
TheJapanesedesireformarriagehadbeenverystrong.Inthefifth"worldyouthattitudesurvey"【C1】______bytheManagementand
随机试题
设向量组线性相关,求常数k;并找到一组极大无关组.
女,48岁。反复咳嗽、胸闷、气喘30年。平素口服氨茶碱及“止咳祛痰”中药治疗,症状控制不理想。近1周来症状再次出现。查体:P86次/分,R24次/分,双肺可闻及散在哮鸣音。诊断为“支气管哮喘”。动脉血气分析示:pH7.46,PaCO2mmHg,PaO264
超额配售选择权的实施应当遵守()的规定。
产品整体概念的三个层次具体包括()。
阅读下面材料,回答问题。李明转学到A学校,刚来时学习成绩不好。进校后学习成绩持续下滑,常不交作业、上课打瞌睡,学习的主动性、积极性都不高。他的父母都从商,家境比较富裕,但父母并不溺爱孩子,同时对学习的要求并不高,只要求有进步。李明腼腆,不爱参加文
吕德雕塑的代表作品为()。
美国生物社会学家威尔逊认为,决定人的一切行为的本质力量是___________。
联合国的宗旨是维护世界和平与安全,促进国际合作与发展。因此,打击恐怖主义应该()
社会整体是由若干个个体组成的,社会整体发展的活力必须建立在每个个人积极性和创造性充分发挥的基础上。如果每个人都没有自我意识,个体积极性都被束缚得死死的,社会的发展不可能有什么活力。所以,()
Socialchangeismorelikelytooccurinsocietieswherethereisa【B1】______ofdifferentkindsofpeoplethaninsocietieswher
最新回复
(
0
)