2017考研英语拓展阅读：Facebook面临股东集体诉讼

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考研英语阅读能力提升需要不断地积累练习，通过多阅读来积累词汇，提升阅读速度，强化把握主旨能力。2017考研复习之初，时间相对充裕，新东方在线建议大家每天多做一些阅读，可娱乐也可增长见闻，还能提升能力。下面一篇文章是关于Facebook面临股东集体诉讼的一篇文章。
    2017考研英语拓展阅读：（双语）
    Facebook will face two class-action lawsuits after afederal judge said
shareholders could pursue theircase against the social network, which plaintiffs
claim hid concerns about its growth forecastsahead of its $16bn initial public
offering.
    Facebook将面对两起集体诉讼。此前一名联邦法官表示，Facebook股东可以对这家社交网络提起诉讼，原告声称Facebook在160亿美元的首次公开发行(IPO)之前隐瞒了对其增长预测的担忧。
    The world’s largest social network cut its revenue forecasts in the middle
of its IPO roadshow,ahead of the offering in May 2012, amid concerns that
consumers were switching to using thesite on mobile, where it was unclear if it
could generate the same degree of growth fromadvertisements.
    2012年5月的IPO之前，由于担心消费者会转而在移动端连接其网站，这家全球最大社交网络曾在路演过程中下调营收预期。当时不清楚Facebook能否在移动端创造同样程度的广告增长。
    Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
chief operatingofficer, are among the defendants at Facebook, being sued by two
classes of investors — retailand institutional. The complaint was brought by
three state and local retirement plans in theUS, lead by the North Carolina
state treasurer and five individual investors.
    Facebook首席执行官马克丠克伯格(Mark
Zuckerberg)和Facebook首席运营官谢里尔儠德伯格(SherylSandberg)均被列入Facebook一方的被告，他们被散户和机构投资者这两类投资者起诉。这一起诉由美国三个州政府和地方退休计划提起，领头的是北卡罗来纳州财政部长和五名个人投资者。
    Shares in Facebook collapsed following the IPO, falling almost 50 per cent
in the first threemonths, as investors worried that it might never generate as
much advertising revenue onmobile as it had from the desktop site.
    由于投资者担心Facebook或许永远都不能在移动端产生与桌面版网站同样多的广告营收，Facebook股价在IPO之后曾出现暴跌，在头三个月内跌去近50%。
    However, improvements to the mobile app and marketers’ fast adoption of
targeted advertisingon Facebook, helped the company grow mobile revenue and it
now generates more than three-quarters of its total advertising revenue from ads
on mobile devices. Three and a half years on,Facebook’s stock has now soared
almost 180 per cent from its first day of trading.
    然而，对移动应用的改进以及市场营销人员对Facebook定向广告的迅速接纳，帮助Facebook获得了移动端营收的增长。如今，Facebook总的广告收入中超过四分之三来自移动设备上投放的广告。在IPO三年半之后，Facebook股价如今比上市首日高出近180%。