Question

【題目】A short Chinese man seems to be the tallest in the world right now. Jack Ma (Ma Yun), 50, is executive chairman (董事局主席) of Alibaba(阿里巴巴) Group. On Sept 19, Alibaba went public on the New York Stock Exchange (紐約證券交易所), raising $25 billion through an IPO (首次公開發(fā)行股票), the biggest in US history. Ma, a former English teacher, has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland.

Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Ma grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12, he wanted to learn English. Every morning, he woke up at 5 am, cycled 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists. He did it for nine years, rain or shine.

In a 1995 trip to the US, Ma was showed the Internet for the first time. He searched Yahoo using the word “Beer”, and found that there was nothing in 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, 18 people including Ma, his wife and his friends founded Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential (潛力) when few other Chinese did. Now, Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce (電子商務(wù)) company, owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. It makes more profit than Amazon and e-Bay combined.

【1】 We can tell from the first paragraph that _____.

A. Ababa Group is the biggest company inspan> China

B. Alibaba’s IPO has raised $25 billion

C. Jack Ma used to be a math teacher

D. Jack Ma is the richest man in the world

【2】 When did Ma and his team found Alibaba?

A. In 1995. B. In 1998.

C. In 1999. D. In 2014.

【3】 Which is the world’s largest e-commerce company?

A. Alibaba. B. Taobao. C. Amazon. D. e-Bay.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文介紹了阿里巴巴集團(tuán)的董事主席馬云，他從小喜歡英語，刻苦練習(xí)，后來他在美國意外接觸到了網(wǎng)絡(luò)，后來在中國開辦了世界最大的電子商務(wù)公司，擁有了淘寶、天貓商城等購物網(wǎng)站。

【1】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從第一段我們可以了解到阿里巴巴集團(tuán)在紐約證券交易所首次公開發(fā)行股票250億美元。故答案為B，其它三個選項(xiàng)與原文不符。

【2】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文中提到1995年在美國的雅虎網(wǎng)查看的啤酒，然后根據(jù)第四段“Four years later, Ma, his wife and his friends set up Alibaba in Hangzhou.”可知是1999年成立的阿里巴巴公司。故選C。

【3】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。依據(jù)短文中的句子“Now, Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce (電子商務(wù)) company,”可知，阿里巴巴成為世界最大的電子商務(wù)公司。故答案為A。