[单项选择]Small firms do net have specific training budgets because
A. they de not want to invest in training.
B. they do not have time to provide training.
C. they do not plan their trainin

[单项选择]Small firms do not have specific training budgets because
[A] they do not want to invest in training.
[B] they do not have time to provide training.
[C] they do not plan their training.
[D] they do not have professional guidance.

[单项选择]Some 1.2 million small firms have opened their doors over the past six years of economic growth.（）
A. 有120万个小公司在过去6年中随着经济增长相继成立。
B. 大约有120万个小公司相继出现了，超过了过去6年的经济增长。
C. 在过去经济增长的6年中，有大约120万家小公司开张营业。
D. 在过去6年的经济增长中，大约有120万个小公司已经在建立起来。

[单项选择]What do the majority of small firms spend on training
A. Less than 1% of their payroll.
B. 1%--5% of their annual payroll.
C. More than 10% of their payroll.

[单项选择] Sickness at work
Small firms are counting the cost of sickness among employees. Research estimates that illness cost small businesses in Britain a month and a half in lost (21) last year. A recent (22) of more than 1,000 small and medium enterprises revealed that last year the average small business lost around 42 days through staff phoning in sick, and that this had a serious (23) on 27 per cent of smaller companies.
Just over one in ten employees took time off for seven days in a
(24) Of these, 9.5 per cent were ill for a week on more than one occasion. In Britain, employees can take sick (25) for up to a week before they have to produce a medical certificate. Owner-managers were far less likely to be off sick than their staff: 3.3 days on average, compared with the 10 days taken by employees.
The head of the research team said, ’The most common (26)
A. report
B. enquiry
C. statement
D. survey