[单项选择]As the owner or potential owner of a small business, ______ will come a time when you need more capital, so you'll start thinking about borrowing money.
A. it
B. that
C. there
D. you

[单项选择]The small shop owner often welcome nearby competition to ______ business.


A. specify
B. stretch
C. stimulate
D. survive

[单项选择]Christmas season might bring profit to the businessmen with the pleasant ______ of cash registers' drawers.


A. moving
B. singing
C. shouting
D. crying

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Text 1
Europe is desperate to succeed in business. Two years ago, the European Union’s Lisbon summit set a goal of becoming the world’s leading economy by 2010. But success, as any new-age executive coach might tell you, requires confronting the fear of failure. That is why Europe’s approach to bankruptcy urgently needs reform.
In Europe, as in the United States, many heavily indebted companies are shutting up shop just as the economy begins to recover. Ironically, the upturn is often the moment when weak firms finally fail. But America’s failures have a big advantage over Europe’s weaklings: their country’s more relaxed approach to bankruptcy.
In the United States the Chapter 11 law makes going bust an orderly and even routine process. Firms in trouble simply apply for breathing space from creditors. Managers submit a plan of reorganization to a judge, and creditors decide whether to give it a go or to come up wi
A. to have access to more relaxed approach to bankruptcy.
B. to submit a plan of reorganization to a judge on request.
C. to negotiate with their creditors when going bankrupt.
D. to sell assets to others who might manage them efficiently.

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Text 3
Europe is desperate to succeed in business. Two years ago, the European Union’s Lisbon summit set a goal of becoming the world’s leading economy by 2010. But success, as any new-age executive coach might tell you, requires confronting the fear of failure. That is why Europe’s approach to bankruptcy urgently needs reform.
In Europe, as in the United States, many heavily indebted companies are shutting up shop just as the economy begins to recover. Ironically, the upturn is often the moment when weak firms finally fail. But America’s failures have a big advantage over Europe’s weaklings: their country’s more relaxed approach to bankruptcy.
In the United States the Chapter 11 law makes going bust an orderly and even routine process. Firms in trouble simply apply for breathing space from creditors. Managers submit a plan of reorganization to a judge, and creditors decide whether to give it a go or to come up wi
A. take advantage of legal procedures.
B. ask for the government's interventions.
C. damage the creditors' potential assets.
D. talk with their stern debtors abroad.

[单项选择]He wrote in his will, after his death, the business would be handed ______ to his son.
A. on
B. over
C. out
D. in

[单项选择]No one imagined that the apparently ______ businessman was really a criminal.


A. respectful
B. respective
C. respectable
D. respecting

[单项选择]When Mr. Green retired, his son ______ the business.


A. took up
B. took on
C. took over
D. took out