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 $25 billion（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 5a.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, 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 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 years 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.

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      Bill sells Coca-Cola all over the world. Last week, he returned from the Middle East.   

       A friend asked, "How was your business with the Arabs?" "Too bad," Bill said in a sad voice. Then he explained, "When I got to the Middle East, I was very confident that I would have a good sale as Coca-Cola is well known around the world. However, I had a problem - I don't know how to speak Arabic. So I made some nice posters to help sell Coca-Cola. There are three pictures in each poster. In the first picture, a man is crawling (爬行) through ahot desert sand. He is terribly tired and thirsty. In the second one, the man is drinking our Coca-Cola with a big mouth. In the third one, he is smiling happily. Soon such posters were seen."

      "That's a good idea," said the friend. "Well, it should," Bill answered. "But I didn't know that Arabs usually read from right to left."

    China's female swimmer Fu Yuanhui came third in Women's 100 meter backstroke(仰泳) on Monday morning(Beijing time)at Rio(里约)Olympics．China's online community has gone crazy about the 1996一born girl，not because of her performance in the semifinal or her achievement，but because of her cheerful answer to her performance during an interview by CCTV．

Finishing the 100 meter backstroke with 58.95 seconds，Fu，who thought it was 59 seconds，was quite surprised with the result．This was the first moment when she impressed Chinese audience with her surprising look and body language in front of the camera．The second time that the young swimmer amazed the audience was her honest and direct answer to a question raised by the reporter． “We know that your body condition was not that good in the past year and it's not easy to have such a result．Do you think you are now as good as before?”asked the reporter． “It is my best score ever．I have worked for three months on the recovery．Only tile ghost knows what I have come through．”said Fu．“It was so painstaking that sometimes I felt like l was going to die．”

    In the interview, Fu used a phrase ”Hong Huang Zhi Li” to describe the great efforts she has made in preparing for the competition，which soon became a popular word on the Internet．

    Karl goes shopping with his mother on Sunday. What do they buy in the supermarket?

    What fruits do they buy? Karl's father likes apples very much. They buy some apples for him. Karl's mother likes bananas, but there are many bananas at home. So they don't buy them. But she buys some strawberries for herself. Karl likes oranges very much, so his mother buys some for him.

    The vegetables in the shop are very good. They buy some tomatoes and onions. Karl doesn't like onions, but his father and mother like them.

After shopping, Karl and his mother have some milk and ice creams. And then they go back home with the fruits and vegetables.