2015年辽宁省普通高中学业水平考试1.docVIP

2015年辽宁省普通高中学业水平考试（一） 英 语 （本试卷分第I卷和第II卷，考试时间100分钟，满分110分） 第I卷（选择题 满分60分） 第一部分 阅读理解（共20小题； 每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中， 选出最佳选项。 A A short Chinese man seems to be the tallest in the world right now. Jack Ma (Ma Yun), 51, is executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a business-to-business online platform. On Sept 19, 2014 Alibaba went public on the New York Stock Exchange , raising $25 billion through an IPO (首次公开发行股票), the biggest in US history, Ma, a formal English teacher, has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland. Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Ma grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12, he wanted to learn English. Every morning, he awoke at 5am, cycled 40 minute to a hotel near the West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists. He did it for nine years, rain or shine. The experience made him a fluent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the wider world. In a 1995 trip to the US, Ma was showed the Internet for the first time. He searched Yahoo using the word “Beer” and found that there was nothing in 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, 18 people including Ma, his wife and his friends founded Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential when few other Chinese did. People called him “Crazy Jack Ma”. But 15 years later Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce company, owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. It makes more profit online than Amazon and e-Bay combined. No one thinks he’s mad now. Ma’s favorite line has been printed on Alibaba’s souvenir T-shirts. It reads: “Everybody should have a dream comes true. What if that dream comes true?” What would be the best title for the passage? A. A Big Dreamer Ma B. A Short Chinese Man Ma C. A Crazy Businessman Jack Ma D. A Bill