资料：“I wouldn’t be here today if not for the generosity of strangers,” said Michael Moritz, while ann

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.”　　According to the passage, Mr. Moritz ( ).
A：graduated from Oxford University with an MBA degree in 1986.
B：wanted to do something to repay the help he had once received.
C：showed his interest and talent in venture capitalism as a journalist.
D：bought early stocks of Google, Yahoo, PayPal and LinkedIn.
B
本题考查的是细节理解。 【关键词】According to the passage; Mr. Moritz 【主题句】第一段“I wouldn’t be here today if not for the generosity of strangers,” said Moritz, while announcing a major donation to Oxford University.（ “要不是陌生人的慷慨帮助我今天不会站在这里，”莫里茨先生说。同时他宣布向牛津大学捐款。）A former Time Magazine reporter, Mr. Moritz left journalism to become one of the most successful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. （莫里茨曾经是一名《时代周刊》记者，后来离开新闻业成为硅谷最成功的风险资本家之一。） Mr. Moritz was an early investor in Google, Yahoo, PayPal and LinkedIn. （莫里茨之前投资过Google, Yahoo, PayPal 和LinkedIn）。 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。） 第三段Mr. Moritz…as an undergraduate before completing an MBA at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.（莫里茨先生在完成宾夕法尼亚沃顿商学院MBA课程前，曾是一名肄业生。） 【解析】本题问“根据文章，莫里茨先生（ ）”。选项A意为“1986年毕业于牛津大学，获工商管理硕士学位”；选项B意为“想要做些事来偿还他曾经收到的帮助”；选项C意为“作为记者的时候，就展示出他从事风险投资主义的兴趣和才能”；选项D意为“购买谷歌，雅虎，PayPal和LinkedIn的早期股票”。 根据文章主题句的内容可知：A项莫里茨先生不是毕业于牛津大学，而是沃顿商学院。C项未提及。D项不是购买，是投资。B项因其家人获得陌生人帮助得以完成学业，故设立奖学金，帮助和他一样需要帮助的人。
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