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资料：“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 LinkedIn. 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 has a history major and the editor of Isis, Oxford’s student literary magazine, as an undergraduate before completing an MBA at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. In May, Mr. Moritz announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare medical condition which is incurable. But he preferred not to name the disease. “I felt I wanted to be 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 Minister 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 ( ).

A.showed how scholarship changed his family members’ life
B.gave him the motive to study hard to be successful
C.illustrated that his family emphasized on education very much
D.proved that immigration family can also make great achievements

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答案： A

本题解析：

本题考查的是推理判断。

【关键词】inferred from the passage; the family background of Mr. Moritz

【主题句】第二段 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.”（莫里茨先生解释说。“我父亲十几岁时被纳粹德国选中，在伦敦凭借奖学金上了一所非常好的学校。”） 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. “父亲的表亲,Fritz Ursell也从可怕的情况下被救出。当他来到英国的时候,他也受益于奖学金,并且长大后成为英国皇家学会的一员,”莫里茨先生说。）

【解析】本题问“从文章可以推断出莫里兹先生的家庭背景（）？”。选项A意为“显示了奖学金如何改变了他的家庭成员的生活”；选项B意为“提供他努力学习追求成功的动机”；选项C意为“说明他的家人非常重视教育”；选项D意为“证明移民家庭也可以取得巨大成就”。根据文章第2段的内容（主题句）可知奖学金改变了他的家人命运。根据文章内容，选项B、C、D相对于选项A并不能很直观地得出结论。