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Target yesterday【C1】________ Wall Street expectations when it【C2】________ a
Target yesterday【C1】________ Wall Street expectations when it【C2】________ a
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2023-10-22
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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 [br] 【C7】
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N
解析
语法题。根据词性,此处应该填入介词。根据上下文可推测该句意为“按收入计算,它是美国的第三大零售商”,介词短语做状语,故选择by表示“按照/根据……”。
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