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
【R6】

选项 A、 
B、 
C、 
D、 
E、 

答案B

解析 该空前一句提到,据一名知情人士透露,这一轮融资使独立于优步的优步中国达到70亿美元的投资前估值。该空后面一段提到,优步的首席执行官在接受新浪网采访时最先证实了这一投资。由此推断,该空内容是关于优步中国进行融资和获得投资的,故[B]项适合填在此处。[B]项中的The round指代前一句中的The fundraising,could raise hundreds of millions more dollars又与下一段的内容形成衔接。
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