Many people take to social media to share news of big events. On December 1st Facebook's boss, Mark Zuckerberg, followed in the tradition he helped create, when he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced the birth of their daughter on the social-networking site, along with news that they will give away the majority of their fortune during their lifetimes. Around 99% of the shares they own in Facebook, which today are worth around $ 45 billion, will go into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Their aim, they wrote, is to improve the world for their daughter and future generations. For now, the move allows Mr. Zuckerberg to relinquish wealth, but not control, as he will retain the votes associated with any shares transferred to CZI. He anticipates remaining the controlling stakeholder of Facebook " for the foreseeable future" , and plans to sell, or give away, no more than $ 1 billion of Facebook stock each year for the next three years. Mr. Zuckerberg is far from the first tech titan to pledge billions to philanthropic activities, but he is following a slightly different path to Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder. Whereas the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a registered charity, the Zuckerbergs' CZI will be a limited liability company ( LLC ). Although charitable status comes with alluring tax breaks, strings are attached. Unlike charities, LLCs can lobby without restriction; the Zuckerbergs have said that CZI will get involved in policy debates. The other flexibility LLC status allows is the freedom to invest in for-profit ventures that have a big social impact. In this, the Zuckerbergs are following in the footsteps of Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, an online marketplace, who grew frustrated by the constraints of charitable status. Mr. Omidyar now oversees the Omidyar Network, which has for-profit and non-profit arms. Will Fitzpatrick, designer of this hybrid structure, claims that the for-profit arm can more easily invest in things that can be scaled up quickly. He gives the example of an investment in a solar lantern that cost less than $ 10 a unit, which meant people did not have to burn dangerous kerosene, and which he says would have been technically difficult to achieve through a private foundation.
单选题 Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan celebrated the birth of their daughter by______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析：细节题。定位在前两段，Mark Zuckerberg和妻子Priscilla Chan一同在Facebook上宣布女儿诞生，并捐出约99％的Facebook股份到Chan Zuckerberg Initiative上。故答案选[B]“创建CZI”。[A]“创立在Facebook上宣布大事的传统”，与原文不符，这一传统早已建立，这次只是遵循了这一传统；[C]“向CZI捐了十亿美元”，数额不对；[D]“出售FaceBook 99％的股份”，并未出售，只是转移到CZI。
单选题 The word "relinquish" is closet in meaning to______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：词义辨析题。从第二段后文可知，“他期望能在‘可预见的将来’继续保持对Facebook的控股”，说明他只是放弃财富，而非控制权，可以判定relinquish的意思是“放弃”。[B]“保留，持有”；[C]“保留”；[D]“分发”。
单选题 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析：细节题。第三段提到了比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会，文中说慈善机构“享受诱人的减税政策，却也有限制”，很多有限责任公司可以做的事情，慈善机构都不能做，因此答案选[C]。[A]“第一个在慈善事业投入数十亿美元的科技巨头”，文中并没有提及；[B]“允许投资营利行业”，这是有限责任公司可以做的，而非慈善机构；[D]“与CZI一起合作，让世界变得更美好”，文中没有提到。
单选题 What do we know about Pierre Omidyar?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：细节题。定位到第四和第五段：“慈善机构的身份做起事来有限制，皮埃尔对此大为不满。奥米迪亚先生现在监管着拥有非营利部门和营利部门的Omidyar网络公司。”由此可以得知，奥米迪亚不满慈善机构会受到限制，于是建立了Omidyar网络公司，马克-扎克伯格也效仿了这一做法。故答案选[A]。[B]“他出于非商业目的创立eBay”，属于过度延伸；[C]“他建议乌克·扎克伯格建立有限责任公司”，文中并没有提到是奥米迪亚建议的；[D]“他使Omidyar成为了eBay的子公司”文中没有提到。
单选题 This passage is best entitled______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：主旨题。本篇文章主要是讲Facebook创始人和他妻子生下了孩子，为了改善女儿与后代生活的世界,他们决定捐出约99％的Facebook股份，而且采用了建立有限责任公司的方式管理这些善款，没有采取传统的慈善基金会的方式。综上，答案选[A]“马克-扎克伯格找到了另一种分享财富的方式”。[B]“马克·扎克伯格和妻子生育了第一个孩子”概括得太偏了；[C]“更多的科技巨头投身慈善”；[D]“马克·扎克伯格找到了运营Facebook的新方法”。