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閱讀測驗21-30：If you are going to invent an entirely new business category—say, e-commerce in China—it helps to have tunnel vision. For years that’s how Jack Ma saw the world. A former English teacher turned digital entrepreneur, Ma founded Alibaba in 1999 and built it into an e-commerce juggernaut that’s bigger in mainland China than Amazon and eBay put together. Ma became a billionaire, made the cover of Forbes and was named to the Time 100 list in 2009. Things were good for Alibaba and for China, which saw its economy boom and hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty, thanks in no small part to the efforts of entrepreneurs like Ma.But as entrepreneurs get older, they start to slow down, look around. What Ma saw was a country paying an environmental price for rapid development. Ma saw the skies in Beijing and other Chinese cities grow foul with pollution. He learned that farmers in his hometown of Hangzhou were afraid of the poisoned soil and that they wouldn’t eat some of their produce. Now, Ma is making it his mission to get China pay attention to its environmental mess. On May 10th, 2013, he stepped down as CEO of Alibaba, though he’ll retain a strategic role with the company.The next day, he took a new job, as chairman of the China board for the Nature Conservancy (TNC), one of the richest environmental groups on the world. TNC has generally been U.S.-focused, but the sheer size and influence of China ensure that global environmental and climate issues will increasingly be decided there. If China is going to change for the greener, it will need local champions. Ma has volunteered.In the West, environmentalism has always been a grassroots cause, but it’s also had the support of a cadre of the very rich. In China, the emergence of a superrich class is relatively recent. Now there are more than 300 billionaires in China and Hong Kong, and the wealthy could drive social change if they ultimately decided to follow the example of megaphilanthropists in the West like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. “We all know how important it is to have Chinese leaders in this effort,” says TNC’s CEO. “So it’s really important for us to have Ma in this.” Already Ma is inspiring his peers to dig into their own pockets. He announced that he and other Chinese businesspeople would raise up to $15 million for the China Global Conservation Fund. Consider it a small contribution to balancing out China’s enormous impact on the global environment as its economy grows beyond its borders.
What’s the main idea of the passage?
(A) Megaphilanthropists play a part in helping people out of poverty.
(B) Business titans do their part to conserve the planet.
(C) The grassroots advocate environmentalism.
(D) The superrich class contributes to China’s dominance in world economy.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.6
統計：A(2),B(12),C(6),D(0),E(0)

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