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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.”

What’s the main idea of the passage? （）

A.How education can change a person’s life
B.Oxford University welcomes the generosity of strangers
C.An immigration family’s story of success
D.large amount of private donation from an Oxford graduate

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答案： B

本题解析：

本题考查的是主旨大意。

【关键词】the main idea of the passage

【主题句】第一段 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.（牛津大学上周三宣布,他和他的妻子小说家哈丽雅特海曼，捐赠￡7500万,或1.15亿美元，资助一个新的奖学金项目，旨在为低收入家庭背景的学生提供经济援助。）

【解析】本题问“本文的主旨大意是？”。选项A意为“教育如何改变一个人的生活”；选项B意为“牛津大学欢迎陌生人的慷慨”；选项C意为“移民家庭的成功故事”；选项D意为“来自牛津大学一名毕业生的大量私人捐款”。根据全文可知，第一段叙述了一位风险投资家向牛津捐款设立奖学金帮助家境不好的学生完成学业。第二段描述了莫里兹家人如何在奖学金的帮助下完成学业并成为社会栋梁。第三段是对莫里兹的身体状况描述。第四段描述了在奖学金的设立下学生的感想。综合四段内容以及最后作者对牛津大学校长的提问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（当被问及大学通过私人捐款而不是政府资助来资助学生奖学金时，是否意味着牛津大学放弃了争取更多政府支持的努力。）可知本篇文章是围绕着牛津接受私人捐款设立奖学金展开的。选项A“教育改变人的一生”，应改成“教育”不切题，应改为“奖学金”。选项C仅为一、二段内容的总结，不能涵盖全文。选项D不是牛津毕业生。