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
Venture capital has now become a global phenomenon. Here is the (1) status of each major region that has venture capital activity. (2) , the definition of venture capital, (3) coined 50 years ago at Harvard Business School, meant (4) capital for new or very young ventures. Over time, (5) , and especially outside the US and Canada, it has become a coverall name for any type of equity related financing for privately held companies. To make matters even more (6) , some US venture capital firms have begun delving into "transactional" finance more (7) to the investment banking community. This is, however, a limited phenomenon.
Indeed, the influx of (8) fund money into the venture capital market has been both a curse and a blessing. Firms found themselves battling to place their newly (9) funds with a (10) number of specialized hitech firms. The result was a series of losses in the early 1990s.
A. explored
B. acquired
C. terminated
D. commercialized
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