首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Which of the following about Amy’s background is INCORRECT?
Which of the following about Amy’s background is INCORRECT?
admin
2014-08-13
41
问题
Which of the following about Amy’s background is INCORRECT?
M: Good evening. I’m Harry. Our guest today is Amy Chua, who is a Professor of Law at Yale University and the author, most recently, of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Amy, welcome back to Berkeley.
W: Thank you very much.
M: Where were you born and raised?
W: I was born in Champaign, Illinois, and spent the first eight years of my life in West Lafayette, Indiana. And then my father—you can figure out that he’s an academic—we were at Purdue and then we moved to Berkeley, California, when I was eight, and I grew up here.
M: So you went to the public schools in Berkeley?
W: I went to El Cerrito High School, a public school—yes, very public.
M: Looking back, how do you think your parents shaped your thinking about the world?
W: It’s complicated. A lot of it was accidental. My parents were both immigrants from the Philippines. They were ethnic Chinese, but they grew up in the Philippines. And my parents actually eloped to MIT, so, not the first place—
M: I hope they took books with them!
W: Not the first place I would elope to, but that’s where they ended up. I grew up with my three younger sisters in a fairly typical Chinese immigrant family. We had to work; we had to work very hard. My parents were fairly strict and a lot was expected of us, and we did not enjoy the same freedoms that a lot of our friends did.
M: I would imagine a real emphasis on education and books?
W: Yes. Yes, principally education, books, and family. I think that would be the core.
M: Where were you educated after El Cerrito High?
W: I went to Harvard. I applied just to that one place. I was going to Berkeley, but I went to Harvard. I went to Harvard Law School, as well, and then practiced on Wall Street for a while, and then eventually moved my way into academics, and I now teach at Yale.
M: As an undergraduate in Harvard, you majored in economics, right?
W: Yes, that’s right.
M: What led you to the law? Why did you decide to go to law school?
W: Sadly, I think it was really just a default decision. Again, maybe playing to stereotypes too much, but my parents had high hopes for me in the sciences. I was actually pre-med, and I chose economics because it wasn’t applied—I started off in applied math, and economics was, I thought, at least a soft science; hoping that maybe that would appease my parents. But I enjoyed it very much and I focused on development while I was at Harvard.
M: What kind of law did you practice, once you started practicing?
W: Well, here the themes start to come together. I took a lot of international law courses. You kind of try to escape who you are, and I’ve always been interested in developing countries, international issues, cultural issues, because we were immigrants and outsiders in this country. My parents grew up in a developing country, two developing countries—China and the Philippines. After graduating, I had clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for a year, and I wanted to go straight into teaching.
M: What years were you practicing international law?
W: I graduated from law school in 1987, clerked for a year, so around 1989 to 1994, I was on Wall Street. It was right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, so everyone was emphasizing markets and privatization as the answer to everything...
M: Now we’re going to talk about your new book. Before we talk about the book itself, there’s a personal story that was very important for you, that led you to focus on the problem, relating to your aunt. Tell us that story.
W: Okay. In 1994, I had just started teaching in North Carolina. I received a call from my mother in Berkeley. She told me that my aunt, my father’s twin sister, had been murdered in her home in the Philippines, in Manila. She’d been killed by her driver. Obviously, this was a terrible family time for us. We were very close to my aunt. She was my father’s twin. I decided to open the book with that story because I looked at the police report, because I was so upset about the case being closed. The most striking thing was in a section for motive; I expected it to say robbery or something, because jewels were taken. But instead, there was just one word, and that was "revenge." That startled me and got me thinking. In a way, that idea has been an organizing motif for the book.
M: Amy, on that positive note, I want to thank you very much for joining us today and talking about your intellectual odyssey and your new book.
W: Thank you so much for having me. It was really a pleasure.
M: And thank you very much for joining us.
选项
A、Amy was obsessed with cultural and international issues.
B、Amy chose economics as a major in university.
C、Amy’s parents had high hopes for her in sciences.
D、Amy paid great attention to markets and privatization.
答案
A
解析
在谈及国际法时,Amy说她对发展中国家、国际问题、文化都很感兴趣,因为她们是这个国家(美国)的移民,是旁观者,因而A正确。其他选项与关键词immigrant和outsider无关。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/HY0YFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
WhichofthefollowingisatragedywrittenbyShakespeare?
WhichofthefollowingisNOTincludedinLeatherstockingTalesbyJamesF.Cooper?
Withregardtospeechvariety,sociolinguistsareparticularlyinterestedinallthefollowingEXCEPT
WhichofthefollowingstatementsconcerningmodernlinguisticsisNOTcorrect?
TheAmericanFamilyWe’lllearntheAmericanfamiliesfromthefollowingfiveaspects;1.Familystructures1)Immediatefamily
A、improvementineverydaylife.B、improvementineducationalsystem.C、lowerwagesandmoreworkinghours.D、moreexperiencedwo
______inBritishandAmericanEnglishhavedivergedverymuchaccordingtothespeakers.
______inBritishandAmericanEnglishhavedivergedverymuchaccordingtothespeakers.
WhatdoestheexampleofCzechspeakersshow?
随机试题
尺寸公差是允许的尺寸误差,因此公差是不为零的绝对值。()
“贻笑大方”这个成语出自于()
A.散寒B.清热C.滋阴D.补阳“壮水之主,以制阳光”属于
该患儿的临床诊断是腭裂修复术后,语音功能恢复正常的必要条件是
下列属于城镇体系规划成果的是()。
根据《建设工程质量管理条例》,在正常使用条件下,房间和外墙面防渗漏的最低保修期为()年。
对于商品销售业务,销货企业即使在向客户提供现金折扣的情况下,现金折扣也不影响确认应收账款的入账价值。()
甲公司是一家制造业企业,只生产和销售一种新型保温容器。产品直接消耗的材料分为主要材料和辅助材料。各月在产品结存数量较多,波动较大,公司在分配当月完工产品与月末在产品的成本时,对辅助材料采用约当产量法,对直接人工和制造费用采用定额比例法。2016年6月有关成
2012年国家火炬计划项目总立项数2108项,其中产业化示范项目1834项,环境建设项目274项。2012年火炬计划重点支持项目445项。2012年,国家火炬计划项目中央财政安排经费3.2亿元支持重点项目。(2014北京)在2012年火炬计划重点支持
数据库系统的三级模式分别为【】模式、内部级模式与外部级模拭。
最新回复
(
0
)