1.(本小题100分)
阅读短文,根据首字母提示在空格中填写适当的词,使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案写在横线上。每空限填一词。
In a famous story, a young boy called Ali Baba says “Open Sesame” and a door to treasures is opened before him. Ma Yun drew inspiration from this and founded Alibaba.com.
Over 14 years, Alibaba.com has become China’s largest e-commerce (电子商务) website. E-commerce is the activity of buying and selling goods and services and doing other business activities using a computer and the Internet. However, the founder chose to leave and to discover new areas of business. On May 28, Ma became chairman of Cainiao Network Technology Co. , Ltd. The company will set up China Smart Logistics (物流) Network. Its goal is to deliver packages (运送包裹) to people anywhere in the country w 1____ 24 hours.
The 48-year-old businessman, who is short and thin and often wears oversized suits, always had the courage to dream big and try new things.
Ma got the idea of starting a business career in 1995. He was then working for a US trading company as a translator, when he was introduced to the Internet. He s 2____the word “beer” and saw that no data came up about Chinese products (产品).
Ma had an idea:why not build a large Internet market to connect (连接) consumers and companies from all over the world and do business o 3____?
That is how Alibaba began. His company grew quickly. But that doesn’t mean everything went well. Alibaba had a difficult time in 2000, when many Internet companies failed. Ma was successful because he m4____ to attract investment (投资) in his company.
But there is a deeper r 5____ for Ma’s success:his attitude. “You deserve (值得) to live your dream,” said. “Everyone thought I was daydreaming when I started. But the most important thing is that we believed in our dream from day one, to today and tomorrow. Of course we made many mistakes,but we never gave up hope.”