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E-commerce leader Alibaba, com Ltd. came out on top of China's company rankings in 2010, with high scores in the innovation and vision categories.
Alibaba's strong performance echoes the significant growth in China's online e-commerce
Passage 1
E-commerce leader Alibaba, com Ltd. came out on top of China's company rankings in 2010, with high scores in the innovation and vision categories.
Alibaba's strong performance echoes the significant growth in China's online e-commerce market.
Deutsche Bank forecasts that online sales will grow to 7. 2% of China's total retail market by 2013, from 2% now.
Alibaba's' consumer-auction- site, Taobao, expects to double its gross merchandise volume to 400 billion yuan (60 billion) by the end of 2010.
In the first half of this year, Alibaba posted a profit of 693 million yuan, or about $104 million, up about 40% from the year-earlier period.
Other online companies that made the top 10 include Internet and mobile company Tencent Holdings Ltd., China's' popular search engine Baidu Inc., and the travel booking site Ctrip. com International Ltd.
Commercial bank China Merchants Bank slipped from last year's top seat to No.2. It was the only bank in the top 10 this year. Last year four of the top 10 were banks, including two of Chinas' big four: Bank of China Ltd. and Industrial&. Commercial Bank of China Ltd.
The banks, which tend to score well in the financial and corporate-reputation categories, didn't rank high in innovation and vision, with the exception of China Merchants Bank.
42.The online sales will grow by 5. 2% of China's total retail market from now till 2013.
A、True
B、False
【正确答案】:A
【名师解析】:根据文章内容,Deutsche Bank 预测中国的在线销售将从当前的2%增长到2013年的7.2%,这表明在线销售将增长5.2%。题目中的说法与这一预测相符,因此选项A是正确的。
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