对于足球不差钱？

对于足球不差钱？

对于以投资地中海俱乐部(Club Med)和太阳马戏团(Cirque du Soleil)这些著名品牌为荣的复星来说，买入一支36年没有赢得重要奖项的中部二流球队有点出人意料。

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

tycoon 巨头；巨富[taɪ'kuːn]

league 联盟；社团[liːg]

trophy 战利品；纪念品['trəʊfɪ]

Wolverhampton Wanderers 狼队 狼队|英格兰职业足球队 (位于英格兰西密德兰（中西部）伍尔弗汉普顿的职业足球队，成立于1877年，是足球联盟创始成员。狼队足球俱乐部是唯一曾在五个不同联赛组别获得冠军的球队。)

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China’s Fosun to pay £45m for Wolverhampton Wanderers（410 words）

By Tom Mitchell in Beijing

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Chinese tycoon Guo Guangchang has promised to take Wolverhampton Wanderers back into the Premier League and “stay there” after his Fosun Group agreed to pay £45m for the second-tier football club.

“Our goal is crystal clear,” said Jeff Shi, the Fosun executive leading the deal. “We will do our very best to help take Wolves back to the Premier League as soon as possible.

“We believe the club and the fans belong at the top of English football and getting there is our first priority,” he added.

Mr Guo, sometimes referred to as China’s Warren Buffett, joins the growing list of Chinese businessmen betting on European football clubs.

The Fosun chairman is the second Chinese tycoon to invest in a Championship club, after the relatively unknown Tony Xia agreed to buy Aston Villa in May.

China is represented in the top flight of English football by CMC Capital partners, a media investment group led by Li Ruigang that paid $400m for a 13 per cent stake in Manchester City.

Mr Guo is a close friend of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who bought into China’s top club two years ago and is regularly cited as a potential buyer of top-flight European sides.

In June, retail group Suning agreed to pay €270m for a 70 per cent stake in Inter Milan. Last year Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man, paid more than $50m for a stake in Spain’s Atlético Madrid.

The football-related acquisitions are part of a larger buying spree by Chinese companies, which spent more than $100bn on overseas deals in the first quarter of this year. That was more than they spent in all of 2015, itself a record.

Like Mr Buffett of the US, Mr Guo has used insurance group cash flows to fund a variety of acquisitions. But a second-tier Midlands club that has not won a trophy in 36 years represents something of a departure for Fosun, which boasts a number of glamorous brands such as Club Med and Cirque du Soleil.

Fosun’s chairman was at the centre of a media firestorm in December when he disappeared for several days to help in a police investigation that did not concern his company. People familiar with the situation say Mr Guo was asked to clarify his dealings many years earlier with a former Shanghai vice-mayor who is at the centre of a corruption probe.

Mr Guo was later released and has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

1. How to evaluate the Wolverhampton Wanderers according to the first paragraph?

A. second-class

B. the top club

C. small-time

D. hard to define

2. What is Fosun Group’s first priority about Wolves as Jeff Shi said?

A. to gain more profits

B. to reach the top of English football

C. to have higher exposure

D. shine up to the leadership

3. How many people in China to invest in a Championship League club by now?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 5

4. What is the similarity between Guo Guangchang and Buffett as mentioned?

A. keen on football

B. as a controversial figure

C. job-based pay

D. acquisition’s cash resoruce

[1] 答案 A. second-class

解释：第一段原文表述是二流足球俱乐部（second-tier football club）。

[2] 答案 B. to reach the top of English football

解释：交易主管Jeff表示“我们相信英国足球的最高水平是该球队及其球迷的归宿，达到这一水平是我们的首要目标。”

[3] 答案 B. 2

解释：复星董事长是第二位投资英冠(Championship League)球队的中国富豪。此前在今年5月，相对不那么知名的富豪夏建统(Tony Xia)，曾同意买入阿斯顿维拉球队(Aston Villa)。

[4] 答案 D. acquisition’s cash resoruce

解释：二者都动用了其保险集团的现金流，为各种并购交易提供资金。