Directions:

In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Large, multinational corporations may be the companies whose ups and downs seize headlines. (41) Small businesses, defined as those with fewer than 100 workers, now employ 60 percent of the workforce and expected to generate half of all new jobs between now and the year 2,000.(42)

Too many of these pioneers, however, will blaze ahead unprepared. Idealists will overestimate the clamor for their products or fail to factor in the competition. (43). Midcareer executives, forced by a takeover or a restructuring to quit the corporation and find another way to support themselves, may save the idea of being their own boss but may forget that entrepreneurs must also. at least for a while, be bookkeepers and receptionists, too.(44) By 1995, more than 60 of those 100 startups, 77 percent of the companies surveyed were still alive. Most credited their success in large part to having picked a business they already were comfortable in Eighty percent had worked with the same product or service in their last jobs.

Thinking through an enterprise before the launch is obviously critical.(45) you must tenderly monitor its pulse, in their zeal, to expand. Small business owners often ignore early warning signs of a stagnant market or of decaying profitability. They hopefully four more and more into the enterprise, preferring not to acknowledge eroding profit margins that means the market for their ingenious service or product has evaporated, or that they must cut the payroll or vacate their lavish offices.

To snatch opportunity, you must spot the signals that it is time to conquer the new markets, add products or perhaps franchise your hot ideas.

[A]Only when the financial well runs dry do they see the seriousness of the illness, and by then the patient is usually too far gone to save.

[B]But many entrepreneurs forget that a firm’s health in its infancy may be little indication of how well it will age .

[C]Frequent checks of your firm’s vital signs will also guide you to a sensible rate of growth.

[D]Some 1.2 million small forms have opened their doors over the past 6 years of economic growth, and 1989 will see an additional 200,000 entrepreneurs striking off on their own.

[E]According to small Business Administration data, 24 of every 100 businesses starting out today are likely to disappear in two years, and 27 more will have shut their doors four years from now.

[F]But to a far greater extent than most Americans realize, the economy’s vitality depends on the fortunes of tiny shops and restaurants, neighborhood services and are factories.

[G]Nearly everyone will underestimate, often fatally, the capital that success requires

答案与解析

正确答案：FDGEB

41.F 在文章开始提出大跨国公司的起伏牵动着媒体，而在该空后面却对小企业进行了阐述，说明中间衔接的这句话应该与小企业有关，F中提到小企业在经济中的地位，表示转折的关系，所以最佳答案应该为F。

42. D项中的内容仍然是对中小企业的发展状况进行描述，所以应该放在该位置。对上句话进行承接和进一步说明。

43. 在本题后面的文字， 对企业家的失败原因和状况进行了描述，本题应该是一个具有概括含义的句子，G项认为很多企业家失败的原因是低估了成功的要素。正好符合该题的要求。

44. 根据本提前一句话，人们预测这100家企业在将来的结果。E项内容恰好是该句话中100家企业最终得到的真实结果的阐述，虽然结果与预测的相反。

45. 本段的第一句表明在策划成立企业阶段是非常重要，B项是对该句话的一个转折，而且根据下文企业可能出现问题的描述，可以肯定该内容应该放在此处。

译文

大跨国公司可能是那些经常成为头条的企业。但是超出美国人意料的是，经济的活力需要依靠那些小商店、饭馆、相关服务业以及工厂的命运。小企业，被定义为那些员工不超过100的企业，现在却雇用了市场劳动力的60%，并且从现在到2000年间其创造的就业机会有望占总量的一半。在过去的经济增长的6年中120万家这种企业相继开业，并且1989年将再增加20万家。

但是，很多企业会在准备之前就会失败。理想者们将会过高地估计他们产品的魅力或竞争中的失败因素。中等创业者，由于被收购或整顿放弃企业而另谋他路，他们可能会保留自己当老板的念头，但同时也可能会忘记企业家至少在一段时间内也是秘书和接待人员。根据小企业管理数据，在今天开业的100个企业中的24家很可能在两年内就会倒闭，而27家将在4年内倒闭。到1995年，其中60%的企业启动，而且77%的企业仍然存在。最成功者中80%都是做自己以前做过的。

在创业之前仔细考虑是非常关键的。但是很多企业家忘记了婴儿时期的健康对以后成长是多么的重要。所以你必须体贴地测试它的脉搏，在他们热情的时候进行扩张。小企业主经常忽视早期的市场停滞和收益萎缩的警告。他们情愿不去承认较少的收益意味着自己的商品失去了市场，他们必须削减薪水或者减少奢侈的办公室。只有当他们的运转资金干枯了，他们才能看到严重性，但是这个时候企业已经无力回天了。

经常检查企业的活力信号也能引导你对增长率进行判断。为了抓住机会，你必须确定信号是时候征服新的市场，增加产品或者把自己的好主意付诸实施