A short Chinese man is one of the biggest men in the world right now. He is Jack Ma (Ma Yun), the Chairman（董事局主席）of Alibaba Group. On Sept. 19,2014, Alibaba went public（上市）and raised $25 billion（十亿）. Ma, a former English teacher, has become the richest man in China.
Born in 1964 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Ma grew up as a happy kid. When he was a teenager, he wanted to learn English. Every morning, he got up at 5a.m, rode his bike for 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake and talked with foreign tourists in English. He did it for nine years, rain or shine.
The experience made him an excellent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the outside world. In 1994, Ma Yun heard about the Internet. And on a 1995 trip to the US, Ma was shown the Internet for the first time. He searched the word “beer” on Yahoo, 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, Ma, his wife and his friends set up Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential（潜力）when few other Chinese did, 15 years later, Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce company（电子商务公司），owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall.

The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to（指的是）______.
A. riding a bike          B. teaching English
C. playing on computers.  D practicing English with foreigners
In 1995, Ma Yun was shown ____ for the first time in the US.

A．beer on Yahoo	B．the Internet
C．Chinese Pages	D．e-commerce

Alibaba was set up in the year ___________.

A．1994

B．1995

C．1999

D．2004

Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．The experience that he talked with foreign tourists in English made Ma Yun an excellent English speaker.

B．Alibaba is set up in 1964

C．Ma Yun used to be a Chinese teacher.

D．Ma Yun went to the US in 2014 for the first time.

What is the passage mainly about?

A．Something about Ma Yun

B．The history of Alibaba Group

C．How Ma Yun learned English.

D．The development of e-commerce in China