Below is an excerpt from an interview with Zeke Emanuel, a health-policy expert, on his famous brothers.
Interviewer: You’re the older brother of Rahm, the mayor of Chicago, and Ari, an extremely successful
talent agent. And you’re a bioethicist and one of the architects of Obamacare. Isn’t writing a
book about how great your family is a bit odd?
Zeke: I don’t write a book about how great my family is. There are lots of idiocies and foolishness—a lot to
make fun of in the book. I wrote Brothers Emanuel because I had begun jotting stories for my kids.
And then we began getting a lot of questions: What did Mom put in the cereal? Three successful
brothers, all different areas.
I: To what do you attribute the Emanuel brothers’ success?
Z: I would put success in quotes. We strive. First, I think we got this striving from our mother to make the
world a better place. A second important thing is you never rest on the last victory. There’s always more
to do. And maybe the third important thing is my father’s admonition that offense is the best defense.
We don’t give up.
I: Do you still not have a TV?
Z: I don’t own a TV. I don’t own a car. I don’t Facebook. I don’t tweet.
I: But you have four cell phones.
Z: I’m down to two, thankfully.
I: Your brothers are a national source of fascination. Where do you think they’ll be in five years?
Z: Ari will be a superagent running the same company. Rahm would still be mayor of Chicago. I will
probably continue to be my academic self. The one thing I can guarantee is none of us will have taken a
cruise, none of us will be sitting on a beach with a pina colada.
【題組】48. Which of the following best summarizes Zeke Emanuel’s response to the last question?
(A) The brothers look forward to a family trip on a cruise.
(B) Nothing much will change in the near future for them.
(C) Higher positions and more power will be their goals.
(D) None of the brothers will go to the beach.
*由末段的“Ari ... running the same
company”、“Rahm ... still be mayor of Chicago”與“I will ... continue to be
my academic self”得知Emanuel三兄弟的未來發展方向將不會有太大改變，故(B)為正確解答。
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