This year the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed to spending $8.6 billion to help meet mounting needs and fund innovative ways to save and improve lives. Many philanthropists are stepping up, but this extraordinary moment requires more: more urgency, more resources, and more bold, new...
1. A. 细节理解题.根据第三段He donated money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation(他通过比尔和梅琳达•盖茨基金会捐钱给各种慈善组织和科研项目)可知,A项正确.2. D.细节理解
French Gates has also ploughed her own furrow. In 2015, she founded Pivotal Ventures, which invests in for-profit and non-profit companies with a view to improving women’s lives in the US. Her 2019 book,The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, further galvanises action...
Gates, with a net worth of $154 billion, has also faced criticism for the Gates Foundation’s methods. “Gates’s vast wealth could help the world in far-reaching ways, for example if it were redistributed as cash gifts to the poor,” the journalist Tim Schwab recen...
Among their notable assets, the Gates have a mansion in Washington state that has been estimated to be worth more than $120 million and a private plane. Bill Gates also remains one of the largest individual Microsoft shareholders, holding more than 100 million shares as of December 2019, as ...