Uber is focusing more funds and firepower on beating local competition in China, with the tax-booking app confirming it has rais

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问题     Uber is focusing more funds and firepower on beating local competition in China, with the tax-booking app confirming it has raised $ 1. 2bn in a round that included investment from Chinese search engine Baidu.
    The San Francisco start-up, which has been valued at $ 50bn, raised the additional funding for Uber China shortly after it was reported that local rival Didi Kuaidi had raked in $ 3bn in a recent cash call.
    The fundraising gives Uber China, which is a separate company, a $7bn pre-money valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter.【R6】______.
    Uber confirmed the investment, first reported in an interview with Travis Kalanick, chief executive, on Chinese website Sina.【R7】______
    Uber has dominated the taxi-booking app market in hundreds of cities globally and is expanding beyond ferrying people into also delivering packages. 【R8】______, where many US internet companies, including Google and Amazon, have stumbled.
    Didi Kuaidi, formed from a merger between Didi Dauche and Kuaidi Dauche this year, raised $ 2bn at a valuation of about $ 15bn in July. But the round has not closed and may increase.
    【R9】______Uber says it has about 50 per cent of the taxi-booking market, but Didi Kuaidi says it has 80 per cent.【R10】______by subsidizing trips, with Uber saying it will spend $ 1 bn in China this year.
    Uber had suggested that Uber China could eventually be spun off with its own initial public offering in the country. Mr Kalanick said the San Francisco-based start-up could take investment from a Chinese "national brand".
    Choose the following sentences marked A to E to complete the above article. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
[A] But it has not yet won the battle for the Chinese market
[B] The round has not closed and could raise hundreds of millions more dollars
[C] It is hard to tell exactly how the Chinese market is divided
[D] Both sides are using their large fundraisings to lure more users
[E] Mr Kalanick did not disclose the other investors in the round
【R7】

选项 A、 
B、 
C、 
D、 
E、 

答案E

解析 上一段提到,优步的首席执行官特拉维斯.卡兰尼克(Mr.Kalanick)在接受新浪网采访时最先证实了这一投资,推测本段仍与特拉维斯.卡兰尼克的采访内容相关。五个选项中只有[E]项是关于Mr.Kalanick的,说他没有透露这一轮融资中的其他投资者,故答案为[E]项。
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