2021-2022学年上海市南模中学高三上学期12月考英语试卷含详解.docVIP

2021-2022学年上海市南模中学高三第一学期英语12月考 II.Grammar and Vocabulary Section A(10分) Directions:After reading the passages below fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word:for the other blanks,use one word that best fits each blank Luckin Coffee Stock Collapses After News of Fake Data Shares of Luckin Coffee Inc. sank over 80 percent after the company said one of its top managers and other employees had faked sales figures. The fast-growing Chinese coffee chain has suspended its chief operating officer Liu Jian and staff reporting to him.The decision came ____1____ the companys special committee conducted an internal investigation into issues in its financial statements for 2021. Luckin Coffee,which has been described as a challenger to Starbucks,was one of Chinas few successful U.S. stock market listing last year. Founded in 2017,it was listed on the NASDAQ last May.It had set up some 4,500 stores in more than 40 cities across China by the end of 2019. Most of these stores are small pick-upstations ____2____ (locate) in office buildings or on college campuses that cater to online orders for pickup and delivery. The Xiamen-based company said its own investigation had found that its fabricated sales figures, ____3____ had been reported starting from the second quarter of last year to the fourth quarter, ____4____ (amount) to about 22 billion yuan ($310 million).Thats equal to about 40% of its estimated annual sales. Luckin also said that it still needed to look into other costs and expenses that were considerably inflated during the same period. The company added that it is assessing the overall financial impact of the misconduct on its financial statements. At the same time, Luckin warned investors that they ____5____ no longer rely on its financial statements and earning releases for the nine months leading up to Sept. 30, which had indicated rapid growth. I