Do you know Ma Yun?He is Founder and Chairman of Alibaba(阿里巴巴)Group.Ma was born in Hangzhou.At an early age,Mawanted to learn English so he rode his bike each morning in order to go to a nearby hotel and talked with foreigners.He would guide them around the city for free in order to practice and improve his English.

Ma is never afraid of failure in his youth.Although he failed the university entrance exam three times,Ma entered Hangzhou Normal Univrsity(师范大学).He majored in English and graduated in1988.While at school,Ma was elected student chairman.He later became a lecturer(讲师) in English and International Trade at the Hangzhou Dianzi University.

In the early of 1995,he went to the United States,and with the help of his friend he got introduced to the Internet.In April 1995,Ma,his wife and a friend collected twenty thousand dollars and started an Internet company.He named their company“China Yellow Pages”.Within three years,his company had made 5,000,000 Chinese Yuan.In 1999,he decided to give up his job in the US,and went back to Hangzhou with his team in order to found Alibaba.Alibabais a China-based business-to-business marketplace site on the Internet,which serves more than 79 million members from more than 240 countries and areas.In September 2014 Alibaba became one of the most valuable companies in the world.Ma Yun becomes one of the most successful businessmen in China.

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    In 2012，Chinese know that there is a new NBA star — Lin Shuhao．Do you know about him? Let me tell you something about him．

    His English name is Jeremy Lin．He was born on August 23rd，1988 in the USA．He is twenty-seven years old．He is 191 cm．His team number is seventeen．There are five people in his family，his parents，his two brothers and him．His parents are from Taiwan．His parents and brothers all like playing basketball．Lin Shuhao is very smart (聪明的)．He graduated (毕业于) from Harvard University (哈佛大学)．

    Now Lin Shuhao is one of the best NBA players (球员)．He has a lot of fans in the world．And Chinese people are very proud of (以……骄傲) him．

    I travel a lot in my work, and what I dislike about my job is eating alone. It always makes me feel lonely to see others laughing and talking. So, eating in the room is a better choice for me.

    After eating alone in my room for three nights in Houston, I needed to get out of my room. Although the restaurant opened at 6: 30, I arrived at 6: 25. The waiter at the front desk made a comment (评论) about my "being there really early" in surprise. I explained that I hated eating alone in restaurants. He then took me to a lovely table near the window and asked me whether I would mind if he sat down with me for a while.

    I was glad! He sat and talked with me about his career goals (职业目标) and the difficulty of being at work on nights, weekends and holidays. He said he hadn't enough time to be with his family. After 15 minutes, he saw some customers at the front desk and excused himself. I noticed that before he went to the front desk, he stopped in the kitchen for a moment.

    Then another waiter came out of the kitchen and had a wonderful chat with me. Before I left that night, some other waiters, even the cook, came out of the kitchen and sat with me!

    When I asked for my bill about one hour later, all the people who had sat down with me came over in a big group to my table, and gave me a red rose. And I cried! What a beautiful experience!

Mrs Ball had a son. His name was Mick. She1 him very much and as he was not a2 child,she was always3 that he might be ill.4 she used to take him to see the best5 in the town four times a year to be looked over.  During one of these visits, the doctor gave Mick all kinds of tests and then said to him," Have you had any6 with your nose or ears recently ?" Mick7 for a second and then answered . " Yes,I8 . " Mrs Ball was very9 . "But I'm sure you have never told me that, Mick !" She said worriedly. " Oh, really ?" said the doctor10 " And what trouble have you with your nose and ears, my boy ?" "Well," answered Mick, "I always have trouble with them when I'm taking my sweater off, because the collar (衣领)is very tight（紧的）. " 

Hello, my name is Martha. I study in No.1 Middle School. My school is in a 1 neighborhood (街区) . It's far from the busy streets. 

When you get to my school, you can see a big2 . It is my favorite place because I can read many3 books there. 4 from the library, you can see a gym. My friend and I 5 playing sports there. It is really fun. 6 is the classroom building? It's next to the dining hall. Our 7 is in it. It is clean and nice. There is a smart8 on the wall. With the help of it, we can study easily. I sit in the middle of the class. You can see my desk is green and my chair is9 , too. Look! On my desk is my 10 . There is a red pen, a blue pen, an eraser, two pencils and three markers in it.

The teachers in my school are very11 especially(尤其) our class teacher Ms. Reed. We all like12 . She often13 us study after class. We can 14 her for help at any time. And she is15 angry with us.

I'm very happy to study in this school.