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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.”

The word “ghoul”(Para.3) most probably means( ).

A.an independent journalist or reporter who sells news to websites
B.a person with an unnaturally strong interest in unpleasant things
C.a latest news item that released exclusively on the internet
D.an online link that directs people to the most heated issue

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答案： B

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本题考查的是词义理解。

【关键词】“ghoul”（Para.3）;mean

【主题句】第三段 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.”（5月,莫里茨先生宣布他被诊断出一种罕见的身体状况且无法治愈。但他不愿说出这种疾病的名称。“我觉得我想成为我自己的伙伴，也想和公众一起（面对）。但我不想让每一个网络上的“食尸鬼”都追踪我。”）

【解析】本题问“文章第三段中的“ghoul”的意思可能是（）？”。选项A意为“一位向网站销售新闻的独立记者或记者”；选项B意为“对不愉快的事物有不怀好意的强烈兴趣的人”；选项C意为“专门在互联网上发布的最新新闻”；选项D意为“指导人们面对最激烈的问题的在线链接”。根据主题句以及联系上一句话内容可知莫里兹先生患有不治之症，他不愿说出所患疾病名称，也就意味着不想透露更多关于疾病的更多信息，供不怀好意的人网上追踪消遣。四个选项中唯有B项含有贬义意味。