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发表于 2012-8-1 08:45:39 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
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 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 filed 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 businesses rose from $77 million in 1972 to $1.1 billion in 1977. The projected total of corporate contracts with minority businesses for the early 1980's is estimated to be over 53 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 in on the increasing apportionments 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 acquire alone. But civil rights groups and minority business owners have complained to Congress about minorities being set up as “fronts (a person, group, or thing used to mask the identity or true character or activity of the actual controlling agent)” with White backing, rather than being accepted as full partners in legitimate joint ventures.
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.

2.The passage supplies information that would answer which of the following questions?
(A) What federal agencies have set percentage goals for the use of minority-owned businesses in public works contracts?
(B) To which government agencies must businesses awarded federal contracts report their efforts to find minority subcontractors?
(C) How widespread is the use of minority-owned concerns as “fronts” by White backers seeking to obtain subcontracts?
(D) How many more minority-owned businesses were there in 1977 than in 1972?E

(E) What is one set of conditions under which a small business might find itself financially overextended?


这个答案我在文中找不到答案呀。 If, thereafter, their subcontracts are for some reason reduced, such firms can face potentially crippling fixed expenses. 是这句吗?
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沙发
发表于 2012-8-2 16:57:04 | 只看该作者
这个我也很纠结,如果答案没错的话应该就是你指出的这句了,可我不明白的是: According to figures collected in 1977, the total of corporate contracts with minority businesses rose from $77 million in 1972 to $1.1 billion in 1977. 这句话不是也回答了D选项吗?
板凳
 楼主| 发表于 2012-8-2 17:03:48 | 只看该作者
这个我也很纠结,如果答案没错的话应该就是你指出的这句了,可我不明白的是: According to figures collected in 1977, the total of corporate contracts with minority businesses rose from $77 million in 1972 to $1.1 billion in 1977. 这句话不是也回答了D选项吗?
-- by 会员 lzksmib (2012/8/2 16:57:04)


恩恩,找到难友了?我也这样想的。我一遍遍的对自己说, the total of corporate contracts with minority businesses rose from $77 million in 1972 to $1.1 billion in 1977. 这句话说的是,小企业的经济规模。
而D说的 增加多少个小企业。

所以,这两个是不同的概念。
地板
发表于 2012-8-2 19:52:17 | 只看该作者
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.
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发表于 2012-8-2 19:52:28 | 只看该作者
不是这个么
6#
发表于 2013-12-6 07:16:52 | 只看该作者
我也来顶一下这篇文章,做完后错了3题,而且这第二题怎么想都不得要领。为什么E的答案是对的?
请求高人指点
7#
发表于 2020-3-6 05:56:46 | 只看该作者
7年过去了,还是没等到答案.........
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发表于 2020-3-18 15:45:29 | 只看该作者
典座 发表于 2020-3-6 05:56
7年过去了,还是没等到答案.........

小安阅读有解析吗?没找到欸?
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发表于 2020-3-23 08:22:50 | 只看该作者
Ecelyn 发表于 2020-3-18 15:45
小安阅读有解析吗?没找到欸?

我都是自己找的散贴
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发表于 2020-11-13 23:46:57 | 只看该作者
典座 发表于 2020-3-23 08:22
我都是自己找的散贴

D。 How many more minority-owned businesses were there in 1977 than in 1972? 对应到唯一可能得到答案的原文一句话“the total of corporate contracts with minority businesses rose from $77 million in 1972 to $1.1 billion in 1977. ”   这两句话主语都不一样显然得不出答案

E. What is one set of conditions under which a small business might find itself financially overextended?  回答:minority firms risk expanding too fast and overextending themselves financially, since
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