In New York, Ma witnessed the Alibaba Group opening on the New York stock exchange with the largest initial public offering (IPO,新股发行) in American history. “Alibaba, the world’s largest Internet commerce(贸易) company makes China equal to the US in the rapidly increasing global competition for technological innovation (创新) and economic transformation ” commented(评论) the South China Morning Post.
It has also made Ma China’s richest man with a fortune of around $25 billion (153 billion yuan), reported Reuters.
It’s reported that Ma’s rags-to-riches journey is just as spectacular as his Internet empire. Ma failed the national college entrance exams twice before he was finally in Hangzhou Normal University on his third attempt and failed in finding a suitable job several times. Also, Mr. Ma is a big believer in perseverance, which was proved in his English study experience.
However, it was his vision and goals that launched his career.
During a short trip to the US as an interpreter in 1995, Ma first experienced the Internet. He believed in the Internet’s business potential when few other Chinese people did. He started Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment, with 17 friends and $60,000 of funds. At the time, when e-commerce was unheard of in China, “I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers,” he once said, according to The Guardian. His unusual ideas earned him the nickname “Crazy Jack Ma”.
Indeed, Ma is different. Although he is very thin and about 160cm tall, “Ma is yet animated and forceful, said The Guardian. “He is funny, creative, and a compelling (引人注目的) speaker.
Ma told Time magazine that he was “old for the Internet”. He started to slow down and looked around. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ma “plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneur (企业家) university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several environmental projects.”
1.What made him into e-commerce industry?
A. His belief in perseverance.
B. His English learning experience.
C. His foresight and ambitions.
D. His 17 friends and $60,000 funds.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. Ma knew little about e-commerce.
B. Ma had no confidence in his business future.
C. Ma is a blind man riding on a blind tiger.
D. Ma had not enough money at that time.
3. What’s the personality of Ma Yun according to the passage?
A. Funny and competitive.
B. Attractive and believable
C. Rich and different.
D. Determined and creative.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A.The Development of Alibaba Group
B. Ma Yun’s Crazy Success.
C. Ma Yun’s Personal Life
D. E-commerce in China
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In New York, Ma witnessed the Alibaba Group opening on the New York stock exchange with the largest initial public offering (IPO,新股发行) in American history. “Alibaba, the world’s largest Internet commerce company makes China equal to the US in the rapidly increasing global competition for technological innovation (创新) and economic transformation ” commented the South China Morning Post.
It has also made Ma China’s richest man with a fortune of around $25 billion (153 billion yuan), reported Reuters.
It’s reported that Ma’s rags-to-riches journey is just as spectacular as his Internet empire. Ma failed the national college entrance exams twice before he was finally in Hangzhou Normal University on his third attempt and failed in finding a suitable job several times. Also, Mr. Ma is a big believer in perseverance, which was proved in his English study experience.
However, it was his vision and goals that launched his career.
During a short trip to the US as an interpreter in 1995, Ma first experienced the Internet. He believed in the Internet’s business potential when few other Chinese people did. He started Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment, with 17 friends and $60,000 of funds. At the time, when e-commerce was unheard of in China, “I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers,” he once said, according to The Guardian. His unusual ideas earned him the nickname “Crazy Jack Ma”.
Indeed, Ma is different. Although he is very thin and about 160cm tall, “Ma is yet animated and forceful, said The Guardian. “He is funny, creative, and a compelling (引人注目的) speaker.
Ma told Time magazine that he was “old for the Internet”. He started to slow down and looked around. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ma “plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneur (企业家) university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several environmental projects.”
1.What made him into e-commerce industry?
A. His foresight and ambitions.
B. His English learning experience.
C. His belief in perseverance.
D. His 17 friends and $60,000 funds.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. Ma is a blind man riding on a blind tiger.
B. Ma had no confidence in his business future.
C. Ma knew little about e-commerce.
D. Ma had not enough money at that time.
3.What’s the personality of Ma Yun according to the passage?
A. Funny and competitive.
B. Determined and creative.
C. Rich and different.
D. Attractive and believable.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The Development of Alibaba Group
B. Ma Yun’s Personal Life
C. Ma Yun’s Crazy Success
D. E-commerce in China
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In New York, Ma witnessed the Alibaba Group opening on the New York stock exchange with the largest initial public offering (IPO,新股发行) in American history. “Alibaba, the world’s largest Internet commerce company makes China equal to the US in the rapidly increasing global competition for technological innovation (创新) and economic transformation ” commented the South China Morning Post.
It has also made Ma China’s richest man with a fortune of around $25 billion (153 billion yuan), reported Reuters.
It’s reported that Ma’s rags-to-riches journey is just as spectacular as his Internet empire. Ma failed the national college entrance exams twice before he was finally in Hangzhou Normal University on his third attempt and failed in finding a suitable job several times. Also, Mr. Ma is a big believer in perseverance, which was proved in his English study experience.
However, it was his vision and goals that launched his career.
During a short trip to the US as an interpreter in 1995, Ma first experienced the Internet. He believed in the Internet’s business potential when few other Chinese people did. He started Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment, with 17 friends and $60,000 of funds. At the time, when e-commerce was unheard of in China, “I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers,” he once said, according to The Guardian. His unusual ideas earned him the nickname “Crazy Jack Ma”.
Indeed, Ma is different. Although he is very thin and about 160cm tall, “Ma is yet animated and forceful, said The Guardian. “He is funny, creative, and a compelling (引人注目的) speaker.
Ma told Time magazine that he was “old for the Internet”. He started to slow down and looked around. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ma “plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneur (企业家) university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several environmental projects.”
1.What made him into e-commerce industry?
A.His foresight and ambitions.
B.His English learning experience.
C.His belief in perseverance.
D.His 17 friends and $60,000 funds.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?
A.Ma is a blind man riding on a blind tiger.
B.Ma had no confidence in his business future.
C.Ma knew little about e-commerce.
D.Ma had not enough money at that time.
3.What’s the personality of Ma Yun according to the passage?
A.Funny and competitive.
B.Determined and creative.
C.Rich and different.
D.Attractive and believable.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A.The Development of Alibaba Group
B.Ma Yun’s Personal Life
C.Ma Yun’s Crazy Success
D.E-commerce in China
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In New York, Ma witnessed the Alibaba Group opening on the New York stock exchange with the largest initial public offering (IPO,新股发行) in American history. “Alibaba, the world’s largest Internet commerce(贸易) company makes China equal to the US in the rapidly increasing global competition for technological innovation (创新) and economic transformation ” commented(评论) the South China Morning Post.
It has also made Ma China’s richest man with a fortune of around $25 billion (153 billion yuan), reported Reuters.
It’s reported that Ma’s rags-to-riches journey is just as spectacular as his Internet empire. Ma failed the national college entrance exams twice before he was finally in Hangzhou Normal University on his third attempt and failed in finding a suitable job several times. Also, Mr. Ma is a big believer in perseverance, which was proved in his English study experience.
However, it was his vision and goals that launched his career.
During a short trip to the US as an interpreter in 1995, Ma first experienced the Internet. He believed in the Internet’s business potential when few other Chinese people did. He started Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment, with 17 friends and $60,000 of funds. At the time, when e-commerce was unheard of in China, “I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers,” he once said, according to The Guardian. His unusual ideas earned him the nickname “Crazy Jack Ma”.
Indeed, Ma is different. Although he is very thin and about 160cm tall, “Ma is yet animated and forceful, said The Guardian. “He is funny, creative, and a compelling (引人注目的) speaker.
Ma told Time magazine that he was “old for the Internet”. He started to slow down and looked around. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ma “plans to open a tai chi club with the actor Jet Li, build an entrepreneur (企业家) university in Hangzhou and continue to work on several environmental projects.”
1.What made him into e-commerce industry?
A. His belief in perseverance.
B. His English learning experience.
C. His foresight and ambitions.
D. His 17 friends and $60,000 funds.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?
A. Ma knew little about e-commerce.
B. Ma had no confidence in his business future.
C. Ma is a blind man riding on a blind tiger.
D. Ma had not enough money at that time.
3. What’s the personality of Ma Yun according to the passage?
A. Funny and competitive.
B. Attractive and believable
C. Rich and different.
D. Determined and creative.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A.The Development of Alibaba Group
B. Ma Yun’s Crazy Success.
C. Ma Yun’s Personal Life
D. E-commerce in China
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On Sept.19, 2014, Alibaba went public on the New York Stock(股票)Exchange, which shows that Ma Yun has done his business 1. (success). A short Chinese man seems to be the 2.(tall) man in the world right now.
Ma Yun used to be an English teacher who led 3. easy life. When he was twelve, he found that English was very interesting. Every morning he got up at 5 a.m. and then ran to a hotel near the West Lake, 4. he could communicate with foreign visitors in English. The experience made him a fantastic English speaker and often delivered English speeches without 5.(refer) to his notes. In a trip to the US in 1995, Ma had access to the Internet 6. chance. 7. was after he returned home that Ma set up a website and created his own company-- Alibaba in Hangzhou. He was so 8.(devote) to his work that he 9.(name) “Crazy Jack Ma”. In my opinion, his 10.(curious) and determination made Alibaba the world’s largest e-commerce company .
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All eyes were on Jack Ma. The chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd stepped down on Teachers' Day from leading the e-commerce giant he founded 20 years ago.
"I still have lots of dreams to go after." Ma wrote in an open letter last year to announce his parting. "The world is big, and I am still young, so I want to try new things." The 55-year-old businessman showed that he was ready for new things by arriving at his farewell panty(欢送会)dressed up like a rock star.
In fact, his rags-to-riches(白手起家的)story is a good example of doing something different. Visiting the United States in 1995, Ma saw the internet and had the idea of setting up his own trading website. In 1999, he founded Alibaba with a group of friends in a shared apartment, struggling for years to get it off the ground. With all the challenges, the company slowly brought e-commerce to China.
Although his success has inspired a number of Chinese tech businessmen. Ma pointed out that the key is having a dream. "It's the dreams that keep us never afraid of setbacks(挫折)."Ma said in a video posted on Sept 9.
Now the experienced businessman is looking to focus on education. What can he offer? "I'm not going to teach English; I'm not going to teach business. But I'm going to teach young people how to face challenges," he told Bloomberg News.
Skilled sailors were never made on calm waters. As Ma said. "Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueler. But the day after tomorrow is beautiful."
1.What did Jack Ma announce on Teachers' Day?
A.His retirement from Alibaba. B.His plan to return to teaching.
C.His dream of becoming a rock star. D.His plan to enlarge his online business.
2.What is Paragraph3 mainly about?
A.The important role of Alibaba.
B.How Ma got the idea for his business.
C.Difficulties Ma went through to found Alibaba.
D.How Ma inspires others to do something different.
3.What does Ma think dreams mean to us?
A.Dreams can lead us to offer more to society.
B.Dreams can give us confidence and courage.
C.Dreams can guide us to further our education.
D.Dreams can push us to set up new businesses.
4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A.Practice can help people succeed.
B.Confidence is the key to success.
C.Challenges allow us to develop new abilities.
D.Good conditions can't help people grow and learn.
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Jack Ma, the chairman and founder of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, took down on Google’s artificial intelligence AlphaGo at the Big Data Expo1. (hold) in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, and urged Chinese enterprises not to develop such things 2. AlphaGo. Chinese Go player Ke Jie, current world No. 1, has admitted defeats in his three3. (match) against computer program AlphaGo in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, 4.led to heavy online discussions regarding the future of mankind and AI.
“Machines must have its own special thinking and must do thins human cannot do,” Ma added, 5. (believe) AI should work for humans to do useful things that human are unable to achieve, rather than just spoiling human’s fun.
But speaking for myself, I don’t really care. I6.(especial) advised that many fellow enterprises should not develop such things and we can do many other useful things.”
Ma also explained7. he didn’t like AlphaGo: “Go game is8.interesting and fun thing where I can wait for my competitor 9.(play) wrong and I can win. But the machine never plays wrong and it can work out the next 300 steps10.you can only think about the next three.”
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Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of Alibaba Group. He was one of the 100 global "future leaders" of the 2001 World Economic Forum and the "commercial leader" of 2001 elected by US Commercial Association of Asia.
Born in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Ma graduated from Hangzhou Teachers Institute in 1988 (he failed the entrance exam twice) and became a lecturer in English and International Trade.
In 1985, a one-month visit to see an Australian pen pal he had met in Hangzhou changed his life. "Everything I'd learned in China was that China was the richest country in the world," he said. "When I arrived in Australia, I realized it's totally different. I started to think you have to use your own mind to judge, to think." After his return, Ma became the chairman of the Students' Union of the whole city.
Jack Ma founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a China based business to business marketplace site. In 2003, Alibaba launched Taobao.com, a consumer to consumer auction (消费者拍卖) website similar to eBay.
Ma said that he got most of his ideas while taking very long, hot showers. He likes to spend time walking his four dogs and playing chess and poker. He said, "I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker."
Looking ahead, Ma said that he dreamed of using his group's resources to improve the lives of all Chinese people, especially the 900 million farmers. "There must be some way of using our experience, our know-how, and make their life easier," he said.
1.We can know from this passage that Jack Ma is ________.
A. the number one of the 2001 global future leaders
B. a great success and very influential in economy
C. the chairman of the Students' Union of Hangzhou Teachers Institute
D. the founder and CEO of eBay
2.It was ________ that changed his mind greatly.
A. his pen pal
B. his experience in China
C. his failure in the entrance exam
D. his experience in Australia
3.We can infer from the third paragraph that ________.
A. Ma loves China very much
B. Ma knew about Australia well before his visit
C. Ma didn’t know the differences between China and Australia before the visit
D. Ma used to judge things with his own mind
4.The underlined word launched in paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A. started B. bought C. sold D. landed
5.From the last paragraph, we can know that ________.
A. Jack Ma will do what he can to make the farmers life easier
B. Jack Ma will devote a lot of money to help the Chinese farmers
C. they will teach the farmers how to use their resources
D. Alibaba groups resources will be given away to the farmers
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Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of China’s Alibaba Group, has a $28.6 billion fortune, ______making him the richest person in China.
A. it B. one C. that D. which
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The first UN Chinese Language Day 1. (observe) on Friday at UN Headquarters in New York in 2010. 2. the world's most widely spoken language, it seems appropriate that Mandarin (普通话) has one day every year dedicated (把…专用于) to it. This 3. (official) marked day of Mandarin language celebration was set by the United Nations as a way of celebrating the language's history and 4. (contribute) to the world. It is hoped that having one day every year 5. (celebrate) Mandarin will encourage more people around the world to take it up. With China likely to become the 6. (large) economy in the world, it is important that the wider world becomes interestingly more perfect in this wonderful language. Every year UN Chinese Language Day 7. ( fall) on April 20. A great way to get 8. (involve) in the celebration is to join a Mandarin class or attend one of the many Confucius Institutes (孔子学院)9. are set up in countries around the world. The number of people learning Chinese is on 10. increase in China's neighboring countries, such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
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On the morning of May 20, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. took off from a muddy airfield in New York and headed for Paris. During the first fourteen hours of flying, he had had some anxious moments. Sleet had gathered on the wings of the plane and the fog was so thick that he could hardly see the tips of the wings. However, he had come across equally dangerous flying conditions before. Of course, now that he was over the ocean, his parachute(降落伞)was useless. He had only one choice: he had to go on.
Although he had waited a long time to make this trip, he did not feel strange or nervous. He was accustomed to flying alone, and he had flown this route in his imagination many times. The idea of flying across the Atlantic had occurred to him one night when he had been carrying the mail between St. Louis and Chicago. That night, he told himself that a solo non-stop flight between New York and Paris was possible. He knew that airplanes capable of making the long flight over the ocean could be built. A man of skill and endurance could make his dream come true.
As he was recalling that night, he reduced the altitude of the plane. Close to the surface of the ocean, he found that the ice on the wings began to melt and the fog disappeared. For the time being, at least, he was safe. The steady sound of the motor seemed like music in his ears. He had perfect confidence in his plane because he knew that there was not a more dependable plane than his. The Ryan Aircraft Company had constructed the plane to meet his special needs. He had worked with the chief engineer of the company, Donald Hall, to produce the airplane as rapidly as possible. Although Hall had worked with the basic design of the Ryan airplane, he had had to make many modifications. As a result, it was a very special airplane. He had named it “The Spirit of St. Louis,” in honour of the St. Louis businessmen whose financial backing had made the trip possible. Besides their money, he had invested all of his own savings, which came to two thousand dollars, in the venture.
At 12 :10 on the afternoon of May 21, Lindbergh caught sight of the coast of Ireland. Now that the flight was almost over, he began to relax a little. Finally, after thirty-four hours in the air without sleep, he arrived at Le Bourget Field, in Paris.
1.According to Paragraph 2, Lindbergh Jr. didn’t feel nervous about the flight because of the following reasons EXCEPT that _________.
A. he was used to flying alone B. he had waited a long time for the trip
C. he had imagined flying the route many times D. his plane was specially designed
2.What can we infer from Paragraph 3?
A. The pilot listened to music as he reduced the altitude of the plane.
B. The trip was made possible thanks to the financial support from some businessmen.
C. The plane got its name in memory of a non-stop trip.
D. The chief engineer designed the airplane independently to meet the pilot’s needs.
3.What does the underlined word in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. beautiful decorations B. regular repairs
C. small changes D. careful arrangements
4.Which of the following would be the best title?
A. Wings Across the Atlantic
B. A Solo Non-stop Flight of 24 Hours
C. The Spirit of St. Louis
D. An Outstanding Pilot—Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
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