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A short Chinese man is one of the biggest men in the world right now．He is Jack Ma （Ma Yun），the Chairman （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 1964in 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 5a．m．，rode his bike for 40minutes to a hotel near the West Lake and talked with foreign tourists in English．He did it for nine years，rain or shine．
The experience made him an excellent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the outside world．In 1994，Ma Yun heard about the Internet．And on a 1995trip 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.15years 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．
right now现在；grow up长大；hear about听说；set up建立
61．The underlined word"it"in the second paragraph refers to （指的是）D．
A．riding a bike
B．teaching English
C．playing on computers
D．practicing English with foreigners
62．In 1995，Ma Yun was shownB for the first time in the US．
A．beer on Yahoo
B．the Internet
C．Chinese Pages
D．e-commerce
63．Alibaba was set up in the yearC．
A.1994
B.1995
C.1999
D.2004
64．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？A
A．The first website Ma Yun set up was Taobao．
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 the Internet business would have a bright future．
65．What does the passage mainly tell us？A
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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