Raymond Arth knows he should feel better about the economy. His company hasn’t returned to its pre-recession revenues selling its wares to the makers of RVs and manufactured homes, but it is making a profit again. Like too many other small-business proprietors, Arth doesn’t fully trust this economic recovery. While he says he’s "guardedly optimistic" about it, his actions are all about the first half of that phrase,
In the Labor Department’s latest snapshot of the country’s job market, the private sector added 268,000 jobs in April, the largest gain in five years and the third consecutive month of solid job growth. Yet a more sobering account of where the economy might be headed—and arguably a more accurate barometer of the near-term future—is the monthly report published by the National Federation of Independent Business. After all, it’s small businesses, which have created two out of every three new jobs the econ
A. is fairly optimistic about the economic recovery
B. sold his products well in the first half of the year
C. never knows when his business will stop making a profit
D. is very cautious about the present economic situation
| A Frenchman came to London to study
English. He lived at his English friend’s home. He worked hard at his lessons.
Every morning he often did some reading by the window before he went to
class. His friend liked to keep birds. One morning, when his friend took out his birdcage and tried to hang it on the window upstairs, the cage suddenly fell off his hand. So he shouted, "Look out As soon as he heard the shout, the Frenchman put his head out of the window and tried to look at what was happening. The cage was just in time hit him on the head. |
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