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Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
ONE OF AMERICA'S TOP GIVERS - WARREN BUFFETT
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: \$88.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: \$42.8 billion
The legendary investor's quest to give (46) _____ more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he's
(47) _____ more than $40 billion--much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also given billions in stock to the four charities (48) _____ by his three children and his late wife. "The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not quilt, but rather gratitude," Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge-an (49) _____ aimed at convincing the world's billionaires to half their fortunes to charity-alongside the Gateses. "Were we to use more than 1\% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness (50) _____ our well-being would be enhanced."
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (47) is...
A. donated
B. invested
C. received
D. taken
ONE OF AMERICA'S TOP GIVERS - WARREN BUFFETT
Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation
Net Worth: \$88.8 billion
Lifetime Giving: \$42.8 billion
The legendary investor's quest to give (46) _____ more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he's
(47) _____ more than $40 billion--much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, also given billions in stock to the four charities (48) _____ by his three children and his late wife. "The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not quilt, but rather gratitude," Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge-an (49) _____ aimed at convincing the world's billionaires to half their fortunes to charity-alongside the Gateses. "Were we to use more than 1\% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness (50) _____ our well-being would be enhanced."
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (47) is...
A. donated
B. invested
C. received
D. taken
Giải thích:
Kiến thức từ vựng:
- invest (v): đầu tư
- receive (v): nhận
- take (v): lấy
- donate (v): quyên góp, quyên tặng
Tạm dịch: So far, he's donated more than $40 billion--much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation… (Cho đến bây giờ, ông đã quyên góp hơn 40 tỷ đô la - phần lớn trong đó là những món quà thường niên đến Quỹ Bill & Melinda Gates…)
Kiến thức từ vựng:
- invest (v): đầu tư
- receive (v): nhận
- take (v): lấy
- donate (v): quyên góp, quyên tặng
Tạm dịch: So far, he's donated more than $40 billion--much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation… (Cho đến bây giờ, ông đã quyên góp hơn 40 tỷ đô la - phần lớn trong đó là những món quà thường niên đến Quỹ Bill & Melinda Gates…)
Đáp án A.