Question

  A short Chinese man seems to be the tallest in the world right now. Jack Ma ( Ma Yun) is executive chairman (董事局主席) of Alibaba Group,a business-to-business online platform. On Sept 19 ,Alibaba went public on the New York Stock Exchange (纽约证券交易所) ，raising $25 billion through an IPO,the biggest in US history. Ma,a former English teacher,has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland.

   Bom in Hangzhou,Zhejiang,Ma grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12 ,he wanted to learn English. Every morning,he awoke 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.

   The experience made him a fluent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the wider world. 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 (潜力) when few other Chinese did. People called him “Crazy Jack Ma”. But 15 years later,Alibaba has developed into the world's largest e-commerce (电子商务) company,owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. It makes more profit online than Amazon and e-Bay combined.

   No one thinks he's mad now. Ma's favorite line has been printed on Alibaba's souvenir T-shirts. It reads： “Everybody should have a dream. What if that dream comes true?”

1. We can tell from the first paragraph that .

   A. Alibaba Group is the biggest company in 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. Why did Ma cycle to a hotel near the West Lake?

   A. To do morning exercises.

   B. To work as a guide.

   C. To chat with foreigners.

   D. To work part time.

3. When did Ma and his team found Alibaba?

   A. In 1995.   B. In 1998.

   C. In 1999.   D. In 2014.

4. Which is the right order?

a. Ma became the richest man on the Chinese mainland.

b. Ma became executive chairman of Alibaba Group.

c. Ma worked as an English teacher in Hangzhou.

d. Ma set up a website called China Pages.

   A. c-b-a-d   B. b-c-a-d

   C. d-c-b-a   D. c-d-b-a

5. The title of the passage can be “ ”.

   A. Crazy Jack Ma

   B. Alibaba's First IPO

   C. The World's Largest E-commerce Company

   D. The Internet Business Potential

Answer 1

1. B 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. A

  马云带领阿里巴巴成功从美国纽约上市，此时这个小个子男人看起来却像世界上最高大的人。本文主要向我们介绍了马云的一些学习和创业经历。

1. B 细节理解题。由第一段的 raising $ 25 billion through an IPO可知，阿里巴巴首次公开募股筹集资金250亿美 元，由此可知正确答案为B项。

2. C细节理解题。由第二段的a hotel near the West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists 可知，马云骑自行 车去西湖附近的宾馆，在那里他可以和外国游客聊天。

3. C推理判断题。由第三段的In a 1995 trip to the US及第四段第一句“Four years later,18 people including Ma. . . in Hangzhou. ”可推断，在1999年马云和他的团队创办 了阿里巴巴。

4. D推理判断题。通读全文可知，正确的顺序应为：在杭州马云当英语老师→马云创立了名为“中国黄页”的网站 →马云成为阿里巴巴集团的执行总裁→马云成为中国 大陆的首富。

5. A主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章主要介绍的是马云的个人经历。故A项为最佳答案。

障碍句分析

   Ma's favorite line has been printed on Alibaba's souvenir T-shirts.马云最喜爱的话已经印在阿里巴巴的纪念T恤上。

   has been printed是print的现在完成时的被动语态。line意思是“字行”；在口语中，line意思是“信;便条”。

关键信息定位法

   这个方法主要用来解答细节题，如涉及数字(日 期、时间、价格等) ，就可以在文章中快速圈出数字，再 找出目标数字及相对应的细节信息，还有人物姓名、 地点名词等等，其他的还包括一些提示情节发展，或 条纲性关键字眼，如First,Next,Finally等等。

   例如，第3小题，找到第四段的“ Four years later ,18 people including Ma,his wife and his friends founded Alibaba in Hangzhou. ” 和上文的“In a 1995 trip to the US,Ma was showed the Internet for the first 1 time. ”关键信息，然后简单计算即可得出答案。