Ma Yun, Chairperson of the company Alibaba, becomes one of the richest men in China. Here are some stories about him on the w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}to success.

    Ma made his first trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After s{#blank#}2{#/blank#}for “beer”, he saw that no answers came up about China. Then he looked for “China” and still saw no answers. So he d{#blank#}3{#/blank#}to set up (创建) a Chinese website.

    Ma said he was refused (拒绝) many times in his life. In the beginning, he f{#blank#}4{#/blank#}the College Entrance Examination (高考) in China three times and f{#blank#}5{#/blank#}companies offered him jobs, even one at KFC.

    It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager b{#blank#}6{#/blank#}of limited resources(有限的资源). However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides a{#blank#}7{#/blank#}his hometown. Ma said that t{#blank#}8{#/blank#}opened up a new world for him because what they said and did was so different from what he learned at school and at home.

    Ma's h{#blank#}9{#/blank#}is a person named Forest Gump who never gives up (放弃). W{#blank#}10{#/blank#}he made a speech about his success at Davos (达沃斯论坛), Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get”.