第三段中的"China's largest e­commerce company forecast 45 to 49 per cent revenue (收入) growth in the year ending March"可以推测画线词意为"急剧上升"。

　　10．What do we know about Alibaba?

　　A．It is China's largest social media company.

　　B．It makes profits mainly from digital advertising.

　　C．It is providing cloud computing services.

　　D．It is new to streaming music and video.

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。根据第四段的第一句"Alibaba and Tencent, which dominate online shopping and social media respectively, have ventured (冒险) deeper into new areas from cloud computing services to streaming music and video ..."可知，由于国家经济下滑，阿里巴巴已进军云计算服务领域。

　　11．What does Jack Ma stress in the last paragraph?

　　A．The investment of global trade.

　　B．The importance of data.

　　C．The necessity of sharing information.

　　D．The future of the Internet of Things.

　　解析：选B　推理判断题。根据最后一段的最后一句"In the future, no company, no country, no business can survive without data."可知，在将来，任何公司的发展和存在都离不开数据，因此他强调了"data"的重要性。

　　D

　　Dearest darling girl，

　　Today is the beginning of the next stage in your life. We head off to your new home at Stanford. Where do I start in telling you how proud I feel to be called Mummy by you? We've laughed at how you burst into this world with a scowl on your face, how determined you have always been right from feeding yourself to making big decisions for your life. There were days during your illness that I wasn't sure you had the will to make it. Telling you that you needed to want to get better was the hardest and yet the greatest day. From that day you took responsibility and decided you wanted to beat anorexia (厌食症)．

　　I don't think I've ever felt so proud of you as when you came home to say that you wanted to go to West Africa between school and university. You chose to go alone, and to raise the money yourself. You have such strength of character and determination. It is at times hard to believe that you are only 18. You experienced something in that month that few dare experience in a lifetime.

So, Viv, here are my words of wisdom to you as you start your next big adventure. The world is a beautiful place but often a few things can make it seem difficult. God's temple is made of love. It's man's