正确答案为选项B，即阿里巴巴的活跃买家与前一年相比增长率是44% , 其 录音内容对应的是 the company had 231 million active buyers on its site， up 44 percent from the previous year。选项A 错误地把增长后的买家数字231 million说成了增长率。选项C 说是75% ，而这个数字在录音中说的是在移动设备上利用阿里巴巴进行 零售交易的用户在中国通过移动设备进行零售交易的人数中所占的比例。选项D 则错误地使用了阿里巴巴通过手机和平板电脑设备完成的业务在其总业务量中的百分比数字。

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区分数字类别，抓住与数字对应的词语。

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Chinese E-commerce giant Alibaba Group has filed registration documents to go public in the U.S. As of the end of December, the company had 231 million active buyers on its site, up 44 percent from the previous year. Alibaba also showed a strong position among mobile users, accounting for more than 75 percent of all Chinese retail done on mobile devices, with 19.7 percent of its business coming from phones or tablets.
Alibaba Group’s founder Jack Ma Yun has spent about US$2 billion in mergers and acquisitions so far this year. In the 12 months ending March 31, 2013, the company booked $5.6 billion in revenue on profits of more than US$1.3 billion. Nine months into its 2014 fiscal year, Alibaba announced revenues of more than $6.5 billion on profits of about $2.8 billion.
Yesterday, private equity firm Yunfeng Capital, co-founded by Ma, announced an investment of 2 billion Renminbi yuan for a 60-percent stake in a unit of Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, a dairy products company. Just one day earlier, Ma forked out 1.2 billion yuan for half of the shares of Guangzhou Evergrande Football Club — the country’s most prominent football club. Before that, the Alibaba supremo took a 20.6-percent stake in financial software provider Hundsun Technologies， and spent 6.54 billion yuan on a 20-percent stake in Wasu Media.
Zhang Hongping, managing director of Alibaba Capital, said earlier that Alibaba's acquisitions could be divided mainly into two kinds: there are the firms that match Alibaba's business and there are those that can help Alibaba in building an ecosystem and platform. Liu Xingliang, chairman of Hongmai Software, a Beijing-based Internet data analysis company, said that these moves are preparing the company for a record-breaking initial public offering in New York, rumored to take place in the third quarter of the year.
According to Liu's analysis, E-commerce firms are not highly appreciated by investors in Wall Street, as reflected by their low price-earnings ratios. Alibaba wants to tell the market that it is a comprehensive enterprise. So, besides E-commerce, Alibaba also packs other concepts into its IPO, for example, culture, health and entertainment.

正确答案为选项A，其录音对应内容为In the 12 months ending March 31，2013, the company booked $5.6 billion in revenue，即阿里巴巴在截至 2013 年 3 月的 12 个 月里的入账收入是$5.6 billion。选项B、C、D 分别错误地使用了其12个月的盈利， 2014年的收入及其盈利的数字。

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记住题干关键词语the fiscal year ending in March 2013，分清revenue(s) 和 profit。

正确答案为选项D，在录音中的对应内容为the Alibaba supremo … and spent 6.54 billion yuan on a 20-percent stake in Wasu Media，，即阿里巴巴掌门人......并花了 65.4亿元收购了华数传媒20%的股份。

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记住题干关键数字more than 6 billion，理解received和 spent在此语境下的反义关系。

正确答案为选项B , 即录音中没有提及的阿里巴巴愿意收购的对应项目。解题从排除录音内容中已有的对应项目着手。选项A 和 C 的对应内容是the firms that match Alibaba's business and there are those that can help Alibaba in building an ecosystem and platform。选项 D的对应项目间接表现为 these moves are preparing the company for a record-breaking initial public offering in New York, 此话虽然并非直接对应，但推理可得。

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理解acquire和 acquisition ( 收购）的意思。

正确答案为选项D , 即选项A、B、C 所列出的项目都不是阿里巴巴不感兴 趣的内容。作为排除题，该题解答需要排除录音内容中说到的阿里巴巴感兴趣的项 目。选项前三项在录音中的对应信息是So, besides E-commerce， Alibaba also packs other concepts into its IPO, for example, culture, health and entertainment。其中， besides...与 also搭配，意思是besides后所指的项目也包括在内而不是排除在外。 这样一来A、B、C 三项都可以排除，正确答案只能是D 选项。

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理解 Besides...also...这一结构的含义，明确 packs other concepts into its IPO的具体意思。