【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] 95-97
Good afternoon. I'm very happy to see that everyone is here for this quarter's meeting since I have some very good news to report. Next May, BallMart will be opening its 500th store. This represents a great milestone for our company. Many of you were with the company when we had just 50 stores. Amazingly, that was only 12 years ago. In the past 12 years, we have gone from a small regional store to a worldwide retail chain. Five hundred stores is an impressive number for any retailer. We are still smaller than Great Stores, Inc., but we are growing quickly. This achievement will hopefully give you the inspiration to keep working hard toward our goal of being the number one retail chain in the world.