Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, has become the richest man in China with a fortune of 150 billion yuan ($24.4 billion ), according to the “Hurun Rich List 2014”.
Jack Ma was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. As a child, Mr. Ma was interested in English. He improved his English by volunteering as a tour guide. Later in his youth, he attended Hangzhou Normal University and graduated in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He later became a teacher in English and International Trade at the Hangzhou Dianzi University. Then he set up his own translation company. In 1999, Mr. Ma founded Alibaba in his apartment in Hangzhou with 17 friends. He pointed out that there had never been an organization that is as large as Alibaba in the world. It welcomes about 100 million shoppers a day.
Mr. Ma is often called China’s Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates. He remains executive chairman of the company, but his decision focuses less on the blind wealth and more on improving the state of the world.
1.Jack Ma has become the richest man in China.
2.Jack Ma improved his English by selling flowers.
3.Mr. Ma founded Alibaba in 1999.
4.Alibab welcomes about 100 billion shoppers a day.
5.Jack Ma only focuses on improving the state of the world.
Little Bob was born in a poor village in New York. His father has been ill for a long time and cannot do any ______at all. Bob’s mother is very busy with the housework _____ working. Bob understands how hard his mother works, and he always helps her______some housework. ____ he does too much housework, his mother is still very strict with him. There are some family rules for Bob.
He must______his things in his room and keep them tidy. If he makes them dirty, he must clean them up ______.He is allowed to keep a parrot, a cat and a dog, but he must feed them often and give them water ________ every day. After school, he is allowed to play with his pets for a short time.______ his clothes, he isn’t allowed to choose his own clothes. On school nights, he can’t go out ______ and only on weekends, he is allowed to watch TV.
Sometimes Bob hates the rules so much that he wants to break them, but he thinks the rules his mother has made are ______ him, so he faithfully obeys them.
1.A. homework B. housework C. thing
2.A. except B. beside C. besides
3.A. with B. of C. for
4.A. If B. Unless C. Though
5.A. look for B. look after C. look at
6.A. quick B. quickly C. more quickly
7.A. by himself B. by herself C. by themselves
8.A. As if B. For C. As for
9.A. lonely B. aloud C. alone
10.A. good for B. good to C. harm for
——The students in this school seldom have time to go out playing on Sunday, ____?
A. have they B. haven’t they C. do they
——He didn’t catch the ball____his farther threw to him.
A. who B. what C. /
——He said he would come to see us____the next month.
A. sometime B. some time C. sometimes
——When is ____?
——It’s on September 10th.
A. Teachers’ Day B. Teacher’s Day C. Teachers’s Day
