Ma Yun was born on October 15,1964 in Hangzhou， Zhejiang Province. He is the founder (创始人)of Alibaba Group.

At the age of 10， Ma Yun took an interest in English. Each morning， he rode his bike to Hangzhou Hotel to talk with foreigners. In 1988， he became an English teacher. Then Ma Yun met Bill Aho， an American businessman， in Hangzhou. In 1995， he visited the United States for the first time. He stayed with Mr. Aho's family. There， he was introduced to the World Wide Web. Then he returned home and set up one of China's first web companies(公司)， China Yellowpages in the same year. On February 21,1999， he founded Alibaba. He chose Alibaba as the name because everyone knew the story of Alibaba.

Ma Yun had problems along the way. But his hard work made Alibaba an online success.

    My name is Alex. I had an interesting and scary experience last Saturday. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, I was walking down the Main Street. I stopped in front of a jewelry store to look at some rings in the window. I really liked one of the rings. While I was standing there, two men came out of the store. They ran across the street, got into a car, and drove away quickly. Then I saw something on the ground. It was a black bag. I thought maybe they dropped the bag while they were driving away in the car.

    I went to pick up the bag and opened it. There was a diamond watch in the bag. I took the bag with the watch into the jewelry store and showed it to the store manager. The manager looked scared by what had happened but he was very happy to see the watch. He said the two men were thieves, and that the police were looking for them. He also said the watch was very expensive. To thank me, he gave me fifty dollars. I was happy that I helped him. However, the thieves stole many pieces of jewelry. They took ten rings, three watches, four necklaces, and ten pairs of earrings. I hoped the police would catch them soon.

Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He was in school for only three months, but he asked a lot of questions. He liked to know how things worked. At the age of ten, he built a small chemistry lab (化学实验室) . He plantedvegetables in his garden and sold them to buy chemicals. 

One day, his mother was ill(生病的). The doctor said she needed an operation. But it was night and the oil lamp (油灯) in the room gave poor light. Edison thought hard and had an idea. He put all the oil lamps in his home on a long table. Then he put a big mirror (镜子) behind them. The room became quite bright, so the doctor could operate. 

At the age of twelve, Edison began selling candy, sandwiches and newspapers on a train. When he was free, he printed(打印) newspapers on the train and sold them to the railway workers. 

One day in August, 1862, Edison saw a boy playing on the tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened (害怕的) to move. Edison took the boy to a safe place quickly. The boy's father was the station master. He was so thankful that he taught Edison railway telegraphy (电报学). Edison soon became very good at it and later he left home to work in different cities. This gave him a new start in his life. He was then just a boy of sixteen. 

There was once a young mouse that lived in a hole（洞）in a wall. He thought he was a smart and careful animal. 

One day, the young mouse woke up（唤醒）from his sleep and looked out of the hole. As he looked out, a nice 1 came to him. " Cheese" the mouse said happily to himself, "I'll go and 2 it now and have it for breakfast."

But then he remembered his parents 3 . His parents were very wise mice and often said to 4 son, "Always wait before you go for a piece of cheese."

So the young mouse waited quietly. Then he heard a quiet " Miaow" and he knew the cat was there. So he stayed in the hole and said to himself, "I'm happy I 5 my parents` advice and learned to wait."

The next day, he 6 again. At the same time, he put his nose out of the hole slowly, and the same smell came again. This time he could see the cheese! It was only a few centimeters away, 7 be sat still and waited in his hole It's 8 that he did not hear any cat noises. Instead he heard a very quiet "Woof, woof ", a sound just like from a dog. 

"Oh, it's a dog!" he thought, "If the dog is there, the cat won't be there. I expect the dog has chased（追赶）the cat away. So I am 9 ." The mouse ran out of the hole and started eating the cheese. He did not see the cat, which caught him and ate him later. When the cat finished her meal," she said to herself, "I'm glad I listened to my parents and leaned a second 10 . Sometimes, it can really make a difference."