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Target yesterday【C1】________ Wall Street expectations when it【C2】________ a 21.1 percent rise in quarterly earnings. Gains in T
Target yesterday【C1】________ Wall Street expectations when it【C2】________ a 21.1 percent rise in quarterly earnings. Gains in T
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2021-11-23
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Target yesterday【C1】________ Wall Street expectations when it【C2】________ a 21.1 percent rise in quarterly earnings. Gains in Target’s credit card business, as well as both its Target Stores【C3】________ and Marshall Field’s stores,【C4】________ a small drop in pre-tax profit at the Mervyn’s department store chain.
Target has【C5】________ a more【C6】________ and style-conscious image than other discount retailers. It is the third-largest general retailer in the US【C7】________ revenues.
Target yesterday said it saw【C8】________ price pressure from rival Wal-Mart who had strong sales both domestically and internationally. For the fourth quarter, Target’s profit【C9】________ to $832m, or 91 cents a share, compared with $688m, or 75 cents a share, a year ago. Analysts had expected Target to earn 87 cents a share, according to Reuters Research.
Revenues for the quarter rose 10.7 percent to $15.57bn from $14.06bn. While same-store sales - from stores open at least a year - rose 4.9 percent.
Target said pre-tax profit soared 18.5 percent at Target Stores. At the department stores which have been ailing, pre-tax profit jumped 15.6 percent at Marshall Field’s but fell 0.3 percent at Mervyns’s.
Credit cards operations added $168m to pre-tax profit in the recent quarter, up 11.7 percent from a year ago.
For the full year, Target’s profits were $1.84bn, or $2.01 a share, up 11.4 percent from $1.68bn, cr $1.81 a share, the year before. Revenues rose 9.7 percent to $48.16bn from $43.91bn,【C10】________ by new stores, a 2.9 percent rise in same-store sales and growth in credit revenues.
A. division B. cultivated C. rose D. beat
E. continued F. anticipated G. upmarket H. claimed
I. continuing J. delivered K. rose L. offset
M. driven N. by O. down-market
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J
解析
词义辨析题。根据词性,此处应该填入动词的过去式。根据上下文,该句的含义可推断为“塔吉特公司宣布季度收益增长了21.1%”。此处易混淆的是claimed,该词常表示“要求、声称、断言”,多指根据某种规定提出的要求或主张;delivered除了常有“递送、传送、发表(演讲)、分娩”等解释外,还可作“(官方的)宣布(决定等等)”解释,故选择delivered“宣布”。
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