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高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜阿里遭反垄断调查，这意味着什么？ 近日，中国市场监管部门启动对阿里巴巴的反垄断调查，主要聚焦其是否滥用市场支配地位，逼迫平台商户“二选一”，以此压制竞争对手。这一反垄断调查对中国的科技巨头有何影响？ China’s Antitrust Probe Zeroes In on Vendor Claims of Alibaba Pressure By Yoko Kubota and Liza Lin A Chinese antitrust probe into whether Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. abused its dominant market position casts a spotlight on longstanding contentions from merchants and rivals that the e-commerce giant pressures some sellers to operate only on its platforms. The timing of the Alibaba probe, which was coupled Thursday with a regulatory summons for Ant Group, Alibaba’s giant financial affiliate, is the latest evidence of a global shift in the regulation of technology giants that until recently were celebrated for creating wealth even as they upended the marketplace. Accusations over the practice, called “er xuan yi”—literally, “choose one out of two”—have been a mainstay of China’s online retail sector for at least five years as Alibaba, the operator of the dominant e-commerce platforms Taobao and Tmall, looked to head off the rise of rival JD.com Inc. and, more recently, fast-growing Pinduoduo Inc. According to Alibaba’s competitors and some merchants, the company has punished certain brands selling goods on both Alibaba and its rival platforms. Such moves include preventing them from participating in high-traffic promotions on Alibaba services or by moving their listings lower down in search results, said Ben Cavendar, managing director at China Market Research Group in Shanghai. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.antitrust [??nti?tr?st] adj. ___________________________ 2.probe [pr??b] n. ________________________ v. ________________________ 3.vendor [?vend?]n. ________________________ 4.claim [kle?m] n. ________________________ 5.holding [?h??ld??] n. ________________________ 6.abuse [??bju?z] vt. ________________________ 7.contention [k?n?ten?n] n. ________________________ 8.operate [??p?re?t] v. ____________________