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Serving Britain for 250 years, Lloyds Bank is focused on helping the people, businesses and communities of Britain achieve finan

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问题         Serving Britain for 250 years, Lloyds Bank is focused on helping the people, businesses and communities of Britain achieve financial prosperity. In June 1765, Taylors & Lloyds opened as a private bank in Birmingham. The bank was established by Sampson Lloyd, a Quaker and iron founder, and John Taylor, a Unitarian and cabinet maker along with their two sons. For nearly 100 years, the business prospered from a single Birmingham office. The association with the Taylor family ended in 1853.
        Today, the Lloyds Bank black horse is one of the most iconic and enduring logos in the UK. But icons are not created overnight. In fact, the story of the black horse parallels the story of British banking itself. The logo dates back to at least 1677 when it was used by London’s Lombard Street goldsmiths, the forerunners of today’s modern banks. Then, it was adopted by Barnetts, Hoares & Co on the same site, before being inherited by Lloyds Bank in 1884.
        The black horse has now been in continuous use by Lloyds Bank for 130 years and today, is one of the most recognised British icons. A potent symbol of the bank’ s strength and stability.
        Decades of mergers saw Lloyds Bank grow from its Birmingham base to a national and international bank. It merged with TSB in 1995 to become Lloyds TSB Bank.
        Along the way Lloyds Bank took over the firm that invented the Travellers Cheques, launched the first ATM machine in the UK and played a leading role in one of the first UK credit cards.
        Lloyds Bank and TSB merged in 1995 to create Lloyds TSB Group, one of the largest forces in British domestic banking. The new group continued to expand, and in 2000 acquired Scottish Widows, which itself has a long heritage, dating back to 1815 and the Napoleonic Wars. In 2009 Lloyds Banking Group was formed when Lloyds TSB Group acquired HBOS whose own roots stretch back to 1695 through the Bank of Scotland brand. On 9 September 2013 Lloyds TSB once again became two separate banks — Lloyds Bank and TSB Bank.
        2013 marked the re-emergence of Lloyds Bank as a modern bank, steeped in tradition, committed to brilliant service and helping UK consumers and businesses prosper.
        With over 1,300 high street branches backed by online, mobile and telephone banking, and a network of Commercial Banking and Private Banking relationship managers, Lloyds Bank serves millions of customers.
        At the heart of Lloyds Bank is our focus on the things that matter to our customers, and to Britain: homes; business growth; jobs; and communities.
        Lloyds Bank is one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. The bank has a long and proud history of helping the people of Britain with the things that matter most to them. Committed to people and businesses, Lloyds Bank offers a comprehensive range of financial products and services — including current accounts, savings, mortgages, loans and credit cards. The Bank’s private banking team helps serve the needs of the wealthiest customers, while its network of over a hundred commercial banking offices supports businesses of all sizes. Lloyds Bank can proudly say it is the UK’s biggest funder of start-up finance for small businesses.
What does the word "parallels" mean in this passage?
选项 A、Resembles.
B、Asserts.
C、Differs.
D、Appears.
答案A
解析 猜词题。根据题干定位到第二段第三句，根据后文提到的，黑马这个标志的发展史，与英国银行的发展是一样的，都是从很久以前，发展到现在。A项“相似，与……类似”，B项“坚持；声称，断言”，C项“与……不同”，D项“出现”。
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