首页
登录
职称英语
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personali
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personali
游客
2025-03-28
18
管理
问题
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. [br] In this passage the author expresses a tone of______.
选项
A、admiration
B、sarcasm
C、objectivity
D、disapproval
答案
C
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。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4016606.html
相关试题推荐
CantheInternethelppatientsjumpthelineatthedoctor’soffice?TheSil
CantheInternethelppatientsjumpthelineatthedoctor’soffice?TheSil
CantheInternethelppatientsjumpthelineatthedoctor’soffice?TheSil
Itismostinappropriate______inthecollegeVIPlounge.A、foranystudentstobe
Don’tcallhimjustacollegeprofessor.Internetentrepreneur,TVpersonali
Don’tcallhimjustacollegeprofessor.Internetentrepreneur,TVpersonali
Don’tcallhimjustacollegeprofessor.Internetentrepreneur,TVpersonali
Don’tcallhimjustacollegeprofessor.Internetentrepreneur,TVpersonali
Duringmysecondyearatthecitycollege,Iwastoldthattheeducationdepartm
Duringmysecondyearatthecitycollege,Iwastoldthattheeducationdepartm
随机试题
【B1】[br]【B9】Since→Although或While从逻辑上讲,此处应表达让步关系,而非原因。
Fest-foodrestaurantsare______tothosewhoaretoobusyortootiredtocook
Whatisthenewitemmainlyabout?[br][originaltext]Authoritiesaroundth
Thissortofsituationhighlightsacriticalweaknessintheleadershipofthec
对被审计单位职工福利费进行实质性审查时,应重点关注的内容有()。A.计提职工福利
根据《房屋建筑与装饰工程工程量计算规范》(GB50854-2013),钻孔压浆桩
子宫肌瘤变性不包括下列选项中的A.钙化 B.红色样变 C.白色样变 D.玻
A.抗生素类抗肿瘤药 B.铂络合物类抗代谢药 C.氮芥类烷化剂 D.嘧啶类
衣原体不同于其他细菌的性状是A.含有两种核酸 B.具有胞壁酸 C.二分裂方式
(2015年真题)冲压作业有多种安全技术措施。其中,机械防护装置结构简单、制造方
最新回复
(
0
)