2. 外语
  3. Target yesterday【C1】______Wall Street expectations when it【C2】______a 21.1 percent rise in quarterly earnings. Gains in Target’s

Target yesterday【C1】______Wall Street expectations when it【C2】______a 21.1 percent rise in quarterly earnings. Gains in Target’s

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问题 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 $43.9lbn,【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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答案E
解析 continued，语义题。根据上下文，此处需要前置定语修饰price pressure表示“它看到了来自竞争对手沃尔玛的______价格压力”。continued是非谓语动词做定语，强调“反复”的含义，干扰项continuing强调“继续”。
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