其他(共2小题)阅读并回答问题。

Once upon a time there lived a poor farmer called Smith.He didn't like to share things with others.Smith had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apples he grew.

One day, his friend gave Smith a young apple tree and told him to take it home and planted.

The farmer was pleased with the gift, but when he got home, he did not know where to plant He thought and thought.Finally at night he planted the tree in his wood where no one could see it.But without sunlight and good soil, the tree soon died.

Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a poor place.

"What's the difference?" the farmer said angrily."If I had planted it near the road, strangers would have stolen the fruit.If I had planted it in one of my fields, my neighbors would have come at night and stolen some of the apples.If I had planted it near my house, my own children would have taken the fruit," "Yes," said the friend, "but at least someone could have enjoyed the fruit.Now you not only have got nothing, but also you have destroyed a good apple tree."

1.Was Smith happy about the gift?

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2.When did he plant the apple tree?

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3.Where did Smith plant the apple tree in the end?

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4.Why did the apple tree soon die?

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5.What would probably happen if the farmer had planted the tree near his house?

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任务型阅读。阅读下文并回答问题。(每小题2分,共8分)

Jack Ma(Ma Yun), 50,is executive chairman(董事局主席)of Alibaba Group, a business-to-business online platform. On Sept. 19, Alibaba went public (上市) on the New York Stock Exchange (纽约证卷交易所). Ma has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland.

Ma was born in Hangzhou, he 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.

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 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(成立) 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.

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

1.Did Ma want to learn English at the age of 12?

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2.Where was Jack Ma born?

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3.In what year did Ma, his wife and his friends found Alibaba in Hangzhou?

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4. What did people call Ma Yun?

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