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Jack Ma（Ma Yun), 50，is executive chairman（董事局主席）of Alibaba Group, a business-to-business online platform. On Sept. 19, Alibaba went public (上市) on the New York Stock Exchange (纽约证卷交易所). Ma has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland.

Ma was born in Hangzhou, he grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12, he wanted to learn English. Every morning, he woke up at 5 am, cycled 40 minutes to a hotel near the:West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists. He did it for nine years.

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 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(成立) Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential(潜力) 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（电子商务）company, owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall.

No one thinks he's mad now. Ma's favorite line has been printed on Alabama’s souvenir T-shirts. It reads:” Everybody should have a dream. What if that dream comes true?”

1.Did Ma want to learn English at the age of 12?

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2.Where was Jack Ma born?

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3.In what year did Ma, his wife and his friends found Alibaba in Hangzhou?

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4. What did people call Ma Yun?

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Answer 1