XII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. ONE OF AMERICA’S TOP GIVERS – WARREN BUFFETT Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation Net Worth: $88.8 billion Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion The legendary investor’s quest to give ____(46)____ more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s ____(47)____ more than $40 billion - much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda ...

XII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

ONE OF AMERICA’S TOP GIVERS – WARREN BUFFETT

Giving Focus: Health, poverty alleviation

Net Worth: $88.8 billion

Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion

The legendary investor’s quest to give ____(46)____ more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s ____(47)____ more than $40 billion - much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where it’s being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He’s also given billions in stock to the four charities ____(48)____ by his three children and his late wife. “The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude,” Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledge - an ____(49)____ aimed at convincing the world’s billionaires to donate at least half their fortunes to charity - alongside the Gateses. “Were we to use more than 1% of my claim checks on ourselves, neither our happiness ____(50)____ our well-being would be enhanced.”