Read the following article and answer the question. Article: A short Chinese man is one of the biggest men in the world right now. He is Jack Ma(Ma Yun),the Chair-man of Alibaba Group. On Sept. 19,2014,Alibaba went public and raised$25billion . Ma,a former English teacher,has become the richest man in China. Born in 1964 in Hangzhou,Zhejiang. Ma grew up as a happy kid. When he was a teenager he wanted to learn English. Every morning,he got up at 5 a.m., rode his bike for 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake and talked with foreign tourists in English. He did it for nine years , rainy or shine. The experience made him an excellent English speaker and opened his eyes to the outside world. In 1994,Ma Yun heard about the Internet. And on a 1995 trip to the US ,Ma was shown the Internet for the first time. He searched the word "beer" on Yahoo,and found that there was nothing there about China. Seeing the chance,Ma returned to China and set up a website called China Pages without even knowing much about computers. Four years later,Ma,his wife and his friends set up Alibaba in HangZhou. He believed in the Internet business potential when few other Chinese did.15 year later,Alibaba has developed into the world's largest e-commerce company ,owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. Question: What does the passage mainly tell us ? Answer:
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- How Ma Yun made history.
- The history of Alibaba Group.
- How Ma Yun learned English
- The development of e-commerce in China.
How Ma Yun made history.
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: How do most students spend their free time? Do they have time to do the things they like? Let's see what some students do during their free time. Ben is eleven. He has a sister, Kate. Both of them like going to the cinema. Every Sunday morning, they go to the town by train and then they go to the cinema because they live in the country and there is no cinema there. They arrive in the town at noon. They usually have a big lunch in their favourite restaurant first, and then they buy some food in the supermarket before they go to their favourite cinema called Star Cinema. They like it because the seats there are comfortable and the films shown in the cinema are always the newest. They always have a good time on Sundays, but when the weather is bad or they are busy with their homework, they can't go. Question: They can't go to the cinema when _ . Answer:
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- it is fine
- they want to watch TV
- they have little homework
- the weather is bad or they get too much homework
the weather is bad or they get too much homework
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Jack London was a famous American writer. He was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. His family was very poor, and Jack had to leave school to make money.He worked hard in many different jobs. Later, Jack returned to school, but he didn't stay. He wrote," Life and pocketbook were both too short. " In 1897, he went to Alaska to find gold. Instead, he found ideas there for his books and stories. He returned home and started to write. His writings were successful, and he became rich and famous in his twenties. Jack London was not a happy man, however. In poor health, he took his own life in 1916. He was only 40 years old. Question: He went to Alaska _ . Answer:
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- for holidays
- because his wife lived there
- to find gold
- to meet his parents
to find gold
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Jack was ten years old and he was a very lazy boy. He didn't like doing any work. He had to go to school, of course, but he didn't study hard there and tried to do little work. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that their son would become one too when he grew up. But one day Jack said to his mother, "When I finish school, I want to be a dustman ." "A dustman?" his mother asked. She was very surprised. "That's not a good job. Why do you want to become a dustman?" "Because I would only have to work one day a week," Jack answered at once. "Only one day a week?" his mother said. "What do you mean? And how do you know?" "Well," Jack answered, "I know that the dustman came to work on Thursday every week, because I only see them on that day." Question: What do you think of Jack? Answer:
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- He was not very clever.
- He was very lazy.
- He liked the dustman's work.
- He didn't want to be a doctor.
He was very lazy.
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