Mo Yan is a very famous Chinese writer. He was born in 1955 in Shandong. He started writing in1976.Dry River, Autumn Stream and Folk Music were his early works. In 1997, Mo Yan stopped working in the army. He began to write for the newspaper. He also wrote stories for movies and TV. From then on, he wrote many books and won a lot of prizes. At the same time, many of Mo Yan’s novels were made into movies. All these made Mo Yan become one of the most famous writers in China. In 2012, Mo Yan won the world’s famous prize for writing, the Nobel Prize. This is the biggest news for China because Mo Yan is the first Chinese to win such a great prize in literature (文学).Then Mo Yan became the world’s famous writer.
1.Mo Yan was born in Shanghai.Jack Ma is a very famous Chinese. He first led his team to build the largest B2B commercial website (公司对公司的商业网站) Alibaba.com and then built one of the largest C2C commercial websites (个人对个人的商业网站) taobao.com. These two websites let Jack Ma be both rich and famous in the world.
Jack was born in 1963 in Hangzhou. He worked as an English teacher after finishing school. But in 1995, a trip to the USA totally changed his life. He thought China should build up and develop its own websites. So he tried his best to do what he could think of.
He first built the website China Yellow Page, but sold it in 1997. In 1999, he began to build up the website Alibaba.com with his team. And then in 2003, he started taobao.com. Both of the websites made great success. Now people all over the world are using the two websites to make money or buy and sell things.
1.When and where was Jack Ma born? ( )A.He was born in the USA in 1965. |
B.He was born in China in 1997. |
C.He was born in Hangzhou in 1963. |
A.In 1995. | B.In 1997. | C.In 2003. |
A.Alibaba.com. | B.Taobao.com. | C.A and B. |
A.A maths teacher. | B.An English teacher. | C.A rich man. |
A.The great success of Alibaba.com. |
B.The great success of taobao.com. |
C.His trip to the USA in 1995. |
Liu Xiang is one of the most famous Chinese athletes. He was born in 1983 in Shanghai. When he was in Grade 4, he was good at high jump and got a medal (奖牌) in the school sports meeting.
When he was 15, he began the hurdles (跨栏运动) and made great success in many international games (国际比赛). And in 2004, he won the 110-metre hurdles gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. This made him world-famous. But it was a painful pity, he didn’t get any success at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games because he got seriously hurt on his leg. After 13 months, in 2010, he won his third 110-metre hurdles gold medal in the Asian Games. But once again, he got seriously hurt at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Liu Xiang is one of the most famous athletes, as famous as the NBA star Yao Ming. The Olympic gold medal made him both rich and famous, but it also brought him a lot of pain. So in 2015, he had to retire (退休) from this sport.
1.Liu Xiang was born in 1983 in Shanghai.