Recent years have brought minority-owned businesses in the United States unprecedented
opportunities-as well as new and significant risks. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the
principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics and the other minority groups have difficulty establishing
themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated
by large companies. Now congress, in apparent agreement, has required by law that businesses awarded
federal contracts of more than $500,000 do their best to find minority subcontractors and record their
efforts to do so on forms field with the government. Indeed, some federal and local agencies have gone
so far as to set specific percentage goals for apportioning parts of public works contracts to minority
enterprises.
Corporate response appears to have been substantial. According to figures collected in 1977, the total of
corporate contracts with minority business rose from $77 to $1.1 billion in 1977. The projected total of
corporate contracts with minority business for the early 1980's is estimated to be over $3 billion per year
with no letup anticipated in the next decade. Promising as it is for minority businesses, this increased
patronage poses dangers for them, too. First, minority firms risk expanding too fast and overextending
themselves financially, since most are small concerns and, unlike large businesses they often need to
make substantial investments in new plants, staff, equipment, and the like in order to perform work
subcontracted to them. If, thereafter, their subcontracts are for some reason reduced, such firms can face
potentially crippling fixed expenses. The world of corporate purchasing can be frustrating for small
entrepreneurs who get requests for elaborate formal estimates and bids. Both consume valuable time and
resources and a small company's efforts must soon result in orders, or both the morale and the financial
health of the business will suffer.
A second risk is that White-owned companies may-seek to cash inon the increasing apportion-ments
through formation of joint ventures with minority-owned concerns, of course, in many instances there are
legitimate reasons for joint ventures; clearly, white and minority enterprises can team up to acquire
business that neither could Third, a minority enterprise that secures the business of one large corporate
customer often runs the danger of becoming and remaining dependent. Even in the best of circumstances,
fierce competition from larger, more established companies makes it difficult for small concerns to
broaden their customer bases; when such firms have nearly guaranteed orders from a single corporate
benefactor, they may truly have to struggle against complacency arising from their current success.
The passage most likely appeared in
A. a business magazine
B. a yearbook of business statistics
C. an accounting textbook
D. an encyclopedia of black history to 1945
E. a dictionary of financial terms
正解:E
質問 2:
Four persons are to be chosen from a group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children. Find the probability of
choosing exactly 2 women.
A. 12/25
B. 1/5
C. 1/7
D. 1/6
E. 3/50
正解:D
質問 3:
Happiness comes through the progressive realization of a worthy objective.
Which of the following is the best criticism of the above statement?
A. Success in any matter is not enough for happiness.
B. Happiness does not mean the same for everyone.
C. Happiness comes from within.
D. Happiness comes through excellence.
E. Happiness comes through the realization of any objective, worthy or otherwise.
正解:B
質問 4:
Open communication lines between the employer and employee is equally important.
A. lines between the employer and employee have equally
B. lines between the employer and employee has equally
C. lines between the employer and employee was equally
D. lines between the employer and employee are equally
E. lines between the employer and employee is equally
正解:D
質問 5:
Find the number of words formed by permuting all the letters of the word INDEPENDENCE such that the
E's do not come together.
A. 30240
B. 1663200
C. 1632960
D. 12530
E. 24300
正解:C
質問 6:
Ann had a bad headache. She tried to take medicine on her own but that did not help. She felt miserable.
Finally she had to ask her sister Amy, with whom she was not talking since two days, to take her to a
doctor.
Which of the following situations represents a similar case as is mentioned above?
A. Tim and Titan stop talking to each other as a result of a small fight. Titan sees Tim in a financial trouble
and gives him help.
B. Mary and Tina are very good friends but have had a difference over some petty issue. Mary invites Tina
to dinner and they forget everything.
C. Sim knows that his mother is very angry but still he dares to ask her if he can go with his class for a
picnic. His mother lets him go.
D. Sam stops talking to Mat when he returns his bike with a flattyre. Later Matapologizesand they patch
up.
E. Janeborrows Mike's camera and did not return it even two weeks after her job was over. Finally
Mikehad to remind her to give it back to him.
正解:C
質問 7:
CAMOUFLAGE: APPEARANCE
A. experiment: hypothesis
B. invest: chance
C. bluff: intention
D. decipher: decode
E. compensate:payment
正解:C
Onoue -
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