There was once a king who had a great palace with a wonderful garden. In the garden, there lived all kinds of animals. All of them enjoyed living there.

There was only one thing in the garden that the king hated: an old tree in the center of the garden. It was so old and dry. This made the king so angry that he finally asked some people to cut it down and turned the place into a swimming pool. However, after the tree was cut down, the animals left the garden. Without the animals, the garden was not so beautiful as before. The king was sad, but he didn’t know what had happened.

A young man went to the king, and said he could explain what had happened. “This was because you cut the old tree down,” said the young man. “There were thousands of moths (飞蛾) which lived in the tree. Birds needed the moths to eat and then they produced wastes for plants to grow. The plants then attracted many other animals to your garden. So your garden became very beautiful. But as you cut the tree down, the animals had to leave.”

“Excellent!” said the king, “I’ll make you rich and you will try to make my garden beautiful again.”

“I’m afraid it will take many years to finish. It will take many years for the natural balance(生态平衡) to get back again,” said the young man.

The king was sad, but all he could do was just to wait.

1.Why did the king cut down the old tree?

A. Because he hated the old and dry tree.

B. Because he wanted to plant a young tree there.

C. Because he didn’t want moths to live in the tree.

2.What was the result after the tree was cut down?

A. The garden was more beautiful than before.

B. The animals left the garden.

C. The king was very happy.

3.The underlined word “attracted” in Paragraph 3 probably means “ ” in Chinese.

A. 驱赶 B. 利用 C. 吸引

4.If the young man made the garden beautiful again, the king would __________ .

A. be very angry

B. make him rich

C. order him to leave

5.The story tells us that __________.

A. it will take many years for the natural balance to get back again

B. it’s easy for us to keep the balance of nature

C. old trees should be cut down

A short Chinese man is one of the biggest men in the world right now. He is Jack Ma(Ma Yun),the Chair-man(董事局主席)of Alibaba Group. On Sept. 19,2014,Alibaba went public(上市)and raised$25billion(十亿). 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(潜力)when few other Chinese did.15 year later,Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce company(电子商务公司),owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall.

1.The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) .

A. riding a bike

B.teaching English

C. playing on computers

D. practicing English with foreigners

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The first website Ma Yun set up was Yahoo.

B. Alibaba raised a lot of money after it went public.

C. Ma Yun began to learn English when he was a teenager.

D. Ma Yun believed that lnternet business world have a bright future.

3.What does the passage mainly tell us ?

A. How Ma Yun made history.

B. The history of Alibaba Group.

C. How Ma Yun learned English

D. The development of e-commerce in China.

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