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Ⅳ.Discourse(每題 1 分)George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. 28A net worth of $25.2 billion makes him one of the 30 richest people in the world.Born in Budapest, George Soros escaped Nazi-occupied Hungary and emigrated to England in1947. He attended the London School of Economics, graduating with a bachelor's and eventuallya master's degree in philosophy. 29 Profits from his first fund furnished the seed money tostart Soros Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in 1970. Double Eagle was renamed the QuantumFund and was the principal firm Soros advised. 30 He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bankof England" because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pound sterling, making him a profit of$1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. His early studies of philosophy led himto develop and apply Karl Popper's General Theory of Reflexivity to capital markets, which he claimsrenders him a clear picture of asset bubbles, fundamental market values of securities, as well as valuediscrepancies used for shorting and swapping stocks.He is a well-known supporter of American progressive and American liberal political causes anddispenses his donations through his Open Society Foundations. 31 He played a significant role inthe peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s,and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to the Central European University inhis hometown. Now in his 80s, Soros continues to take an active personal interest in the work of OpenSociety Foundations, traveling widely to support its work and advocating for positive policy changes withworld leaders both publicly and privately.But throughout Soros’s philanthropic legacy, one thing has remained constant: a commitment tofighting the world’s most intractable problems. He has been known to emphasize the importance oftackling losing causes. Indeed, many of the issues Soros has taken on—and he would be the first to admitthis—are the types of issues for which a complete solution might never emerge. “My success in thefinancial markets has given me a greater degree of independence than most other people,” Soros oncewrote. 32
(A) Between 1979 and 2011 Soros donated more than $11 billion to various philanthropic causes.
(B) He began his business career by taking various jobs at merchant banks before starting hisfirst hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969.
(C) That independence has allowed him to forge his own path towards a world that’s more open,more just, and more equitable for all.
(D) At its founding, the Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management, and as of 2011it had $25 billion, the majority of his overall net worth.
(E) He is considered by some to be one of the most successful investors in the world.
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