[简答题]Small businesses often grow into large ones. Adding to the economy vitality.

[简答题]Small businesses grow into bigger ones. Adding to the economic vitality.

[填空题]There has been a large (grow) ______ of light industries during these years.

[判断题]

Most of the world’s businesses are small.

[单项选择]Above all else, small businesses want training that
A. will answer their short-term needs.
B. does not require immediate investment.
C. will help their planning procedures.

[单项选择]

Some cities grow very large because of two important reasons. First, there may be important natural resources like wood, gas, oil, rivers or harbors near or in the city. Natural resources like wood or oil can be brought to the city and made into products to sell. Other resources, like rivers or harbors help to send the city’s products to other places to be sold. Second, the city may be located in a place where roads and rivers come together. This makes these cities good places to buy and sell goods.
Houston is a city that grew large because it has two important natural resources. They are oil and a good harbor. The oil can be brought to Houston, made into different products, and shipped out of the harbor to other parts of the world.
Chicago is a city that grew very large because of its location at a place where roads, railways, and airways meet. In Chicago, goods can be brought together from all over the country and bought and sold. Then the goods can be loa
A. natural resources
B. convenient traffic
C. population growth
D. A and B

[填空题]Young people often wonder at the large number of S31 ______ who do not respond to their applications for jobs. They say that despite S32 ______ return envelopes they hear nothing at all or, at best, .an S33 ______ note is sent declaring that the post for which they applied has been filled. S34 ______ often developed the S35 ______ that S36 ______ are earmarked (指定) for friends and relatives and that advertisements are only put ont to avert (避免) this S37 ______ . Many of them tire of writing around and feel that if only they could obtain an interview with the right person their application would meet with. success. S38 ______ . Yet even sending brief replies to the many who apply takes much time and money. That so called return envelope may not have been stamped by the sender, and S39 ______ .A brief note is all that can be managed and even that depends on the policy of the firm. S40 ______ .S31