阅读理解 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 Al Gore advice helps, so be it.
单选题 39.What can we learn about Africana. com?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题的依据句是第二段的最后句“The site is a rich source of scholarship but hardly a rich source of revenue．”从中可知A项“它对于时代华纳的经济意义不大”为正确答案。
单选题 40.What is true about Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. ?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】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。
单选题 41.In Paragraph 5, the phrase "have taken him to task for..." most probably means______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】第五段的首句是“With fame comes controversy．Several other black intellectuals have taken him to task for not being confrontational enough．”从中可知，随着出名，也引来了争议。好几个黑人学者责怪他(在与美国主流文化方面的)对抗还不够。因此A项是正确答案。
单选题 42.From Gates's mention of W. E.B.Du Bois and Malcolm X we can infer that______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】从第五段可知，他认为自己与其是Malcolm X的后裔不如是W．E．B．Du Bois的后裔，因为W．E．B．Du Bois是历史学家和教育家，而Malcolm X主张暴力抵抗。因此D项是正确答案。
单选题 43.According to Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. himself, giving advice to Al Gore is______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题可依据第五段提到Gates的话“Fifty years from now I want there to be at least 10 great centers of AfroAmerican studies(我希望今后的50年内至少要建有10家大的非美研究中心)”，和第六段的“If working as a consultant on Spielberg’s historical film Amistad or giving Al Gore advice helps，so be it.(如果给Spielberg的历史电影Amistad当顾问或给Gore当顾问有帮助的话，就当吧)。”因此A项是正确答案。
单选题 44.In this passage the author expresses a tone of______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】综观全文，作者以事实客观地介绍了小Henry Louis“Skip”Gates，没有表示褒贬。因此C项是正确答案。