Back in 1995, Jack Mark made his first trip to the US and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up relating     1     China. When he then searched for “China” and still saw no results, he decided     2     (set) up a Chinese website – the seed for Alibaba had been sown.

Ma     3     (simple) wanted his company to have a     4    (globe) and interesting name, and realized Alibaba is a story     5     (know) across the world. AS an added bonus, Ma said because it begins with A, it also appears top of lists.

The company     6    (found) in 1999 and since then has grown from 15 employees to over 30,000. Alibaba has directly and indirectly created 40 million     7     (job) for China. It floated on New York Stock Market in September 2014 for $ 25 billion, the largest IPO on earth.

Ma hopes to keep expanding Alibaba outside of China and is aiming for 2 billion consumers and 10 million small businesses to use     8     company outside of China.

Ma became the richest man in China,     9     the company he founded floated on the stock market in 2014 with a value of around $ 140 billion –the     10     (large) public offering in history.

4 . Malala Yousafzai, the teen activist from Pakistan, has just become the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. In 2012, Malala survived from being shot by terrorists for speaking out for a girl’s right to be educated in her native country. She is being recognized today for her global activism on education for girls. Winning this award is a huge honor, especially for such a young person.

Malala’s journey to the Nobel Prize has not been easy. She grew up in a dangerous district of Pakistan called the Swat Valley. This area was taken over by the Taliban. The Taliban ruled the district with an iron fist. They were especially cruel to women, not allowing them to go shopping, have jobs, or go to school.

In 2009, Malala began speaking out publicly for every girl's right to an education. She blogged about how the Taliban didn’t want her to go to school. She also continued to attend her local school, despite the danger involved.

Then, in 2012, the Taliban tried to kill Malala to silence her. Two Taliban gunmen shot her and two other students while they were on a school bus. Malala was flown to the United Kingdom for immediate medical treatment.

Malala eventually recovered from her injuries. She now lives in Birmingham, England, and continues to work hard to support girls' and women’s rights around the world.

“The terrorists thought that they would change my aims and stop my ambitions,” she said, “but nothing changed in my life except this. Weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage were born.”

The 17-year-old girl from Pakistan is sharing the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with a children’s activist Kailash Satyarthi, who is from India Satyarthi leads many campaigns dedicated to removing child labor.

5 . You probably know who Marie Curie was, but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson. Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank. Addams helped the poor and worked for peace. She encouraged a sense of community (社区) by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need. In 1931, Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

If it weren’t for Rachel Carson, the environmental movement might not exist today. Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness(意识) of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world’s lakes and oceans.

When Sandra Day O’Connor finished third in her class at Stanford Law School, in 1952, she could not find work at a law firm because she was a woman. She became an Arizona state senator (参议员) and in 1981, the first woman to join the U. S. Supreme Court (最高法院). O’Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

On December 1,1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rasa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Her simple act landed Parks in prison. But it also set off the Montgomery bus boycott (抵制). It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rights movement. “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in,” said Parks.

8 . “Leave a place better than you found it.” It’s a _________ philosophy, but one that William Lindesay holds dear. On April 22, which was also Earth Day, he led twenty _________ to help clean up the Badaling section of the Great Wall.

He who _________ is the owner, William said in the _________ remarks of the cleanup event in 2000. “The Great Wall _________ China, and is also one of the greatest structures in the world. Everyone has a _________ to protect it. Every day should be Earth Day,” he said.

During the past three decades, he has spent most of his time _________ and exploring the Great Wall and has developed his own efforts to protect the cultural relic.

“It's a _________ thing that people are going out to enjoy themselves and to _________ the great history and heritage, __________ it's also quite dangerous if they don't __________ how fragile the historical sites are and how fragile the __________ is,” William said.

In 1989, his first __________ Alone on the Great Wall was published, and he has published another five books about the Great Wall since then. In 2001, he __________ International Friends of the Great Wall, an association whose efforts are aimed at protecting this __________ to the past.

His next step is to organize exhibitions about the Great Wall as a monument over the last 400 years. The exhibitions are expected to be held in Beijing, London, Paris and Washington D. C

9 . Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission (录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.

In 1849, after graduation from medical school. she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon (外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.

Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.