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回答题Starting Business
People from other countries often take America as the "land of opportunity". Americans,too, believe that the country gives no end of chances to those who want to open their ownbusinesses in this amazing place. Today, many Americans are still trying hard to become smallbusiness people, although only one out of two remains in operation after the first two years.
Many people start their small businesses for the wrong reasons. They want to get awayfrom the paper work of their present jobs or to exchange the responsibility of their present jobsfor free life styles. But more, not less, paper work and responsibility come with ownership of asmall business.
Thomas is the owner of the news magazine Mother Earth, which is now quite successful.He says that he had to work sixty hours without stopping when he was trying to bring out thefirst issue.
Thomas had waited for years after he came up with the idea for Mother Earth. During thatperiod of time, he collected as much information as he could about his business. He borrowedbooks from the library, talked to successful people in the field, and began planning carefully theamount of money and the kinds and numbers of supplies he would probably need. When hefinally opened with a capital of $1,500, he set up his office in the kitchen and his printingpress in the garage. Owing to his devotion to business, his talent, and his skill in management,Mother Earth now has a circulation of 300, 000.
Not all small businesses are doing as fine as Mother Earth is 50% of the 450, 000 that startin America every year fail. Still, 95% businesses in the U.S. can be called "small".Altogether these businesses amount to 40% of America's gross national product.
According to the passage, which of the following is true of the small businesses in the US? A．All of them close down in the first two years.
B．Most of them fail within the first two years.
C．They all make big profits.
D．Only half of them continue to operate after the first two years.
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