Passage Two
American has long been considered the land of opportunity by those from other countries. Americans, too, believe that the United States provides almost limifiess opportunity for those who want to open businesses on their own.
Today, Americans are still fond of trying their hand at becoming small business people, even though only one out of two survives the first two years. Many of these people start their businesses for the wrong reasons: to get away from the paper work of their present jobs or to exchange the responsibility of their present jobs for freer life styles. But more, not less, paper work and responsibility come with ownership of a small business. John Shuttleworth, owner of the recently successful life-ecology news magazine Mother Earth, reports having had to work sixty hours straight in order to bring out the first issue.
John Shuttleworth waited years after conceiving the idea for Mother Earth before he attempted to put out
A. John Shuttleworth
B. starting a small business
C. America
D. the failure of businesses
Passage Two
American has long been considered the land of opportunity by those from other countries. Americans, too, believe that the United States provides almost limifiess opportunity for those who want to open businesses on their own.
Today, Americans are still fond of trying their hand at becoming small business people, even though only one out of two survives the first two years. Many of these people start their businesses for the wrong reasons: to get away from the paper work of their present jobs or to exchange the responsibility of their present jobs for freer life styles. But more, not less, paper work and responsibility come with ownership of a small business. John Shuttleworth, owner of the recently successful life-ecology news magazine Mother Earth, reports having had to work sixty hours straight in order to bring out the first issue.
John Shuttleworth waited years after conceiving the idea for Mother Earth before he attempted to put out
A. continuously
B. honestly
C. alone
D. not curved
Passage Six
Economics has long been known as the dismal science. But is any economist so dreary as to criticize Christmas At first glance, the holiday season in western economies seems a treat for those concerned with such vagaries as GDP growth. After all, everyone is spending; in America, retailers make 25% of their yearly sales and 60% of their profits between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even so, economists find something to worry about in the nature of the purchases being made.
Much of the holiday spending is on gifts for others. At the simplest level, giving gifts involves the giver thinking of something that the recipient would like—he tries to guess her preferences, as economists say—and then buying the gift and delivering it. Yet this guessing of preferences is no mean feat; indeed, it is often done badly. Every year, ties go unworn and books unread. And even if a gift is enjoyed, it may not be what the recipient would have bought had th
A. prove the mismatch between wants and gifts
B. spark new ideas of economic studies on holiday spending
C. evaluate the disparity between wants and gifts in economic terms
D. discover the exact cost of holiday spending on gift-giving
Passage Two
Kathy Allen has breast cancer. She needs to know which kind of medicine to take.
Doctors want to know the medical history of her family. But Kathy was adopted and doesn’t know who her parents are
More than two thousand, adoptees in Oregon have applied for a birth certificate that would tell them the name of their birth mothers. Any adoptee over 21 years old who was born in Oregon can get a birth certificate for $15.
Kathy Allen says of the opportunity, "It’s like getting the key to [my] diary. The diary is my life and it has been locked up for a long time, and having the key might enable me to open up the book and maybe see some answers that I have been wondering about."
The new law was passed in 1988. The new law has been fought in court, but now it is going into effect.
Some birth mothers don’t want anyone to find them. When they gave up their babies for adoption they were told it wou
A. The birth mothers.
B. The adopted children.
C. The voters.
D. All of the abov
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