Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Until recently, most American entrepreneurs were men. Discrimination against women in business, the demands of caring for families, and lack of business training had kept the number of women entrepreneurs small. Now, however, businesses owned by women account for more than $40 billion in annual revenues, and this figure is likely to continue rising throughout the 1990s. As Carolyn Donnell Gray, an official of the Small Business Administration, has noted, “The 1970s was the decade of women entering management, and the 1980s turned out to be the decade of the woman entrepreneur”. What are some of the factors behind this trend? For one thing, as more women earn advanced degrees in business and enter the corporate world, they are finding obstacles. Women are still excluded from most executive suites. Charlotte Taylor, a management consultant, had noted, “In the 1970s women believed if they got an MBA and worked hard they could become chairman of the board. Now they’ve found out that isn’t going to happen, so they go out on their own”. In the past, most women entrepreneurs worked in “women’s” fields: cosmetics and clothing, for example. But this is changing. Consider ASK Computer Systems, a $22-million-year computer software business. It was founded in 1973 by Sandra Kurtzig, who was then a housewife with degrees in math and engineering. When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let weekly newspapers keep tabs on their newspaper carriers-and her office was a bedroom at home, with a shoebox under the bed to hold the 6 company’s cash. After she succeeded with the newspaper software system, she hired several bright computerscience graduates to develop additional programs. When these were marketed and sold, ASK began to grow. It now has 200 employees, and Sandra Kurtzig owns $66.9 million of stock.
Of course, many women who start their own businesses fail, just as men often do. They still face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and finance world is still dominated by men, and old attitudes die hard. Most businesses owned by women are still quite small. But the situation is changing; there are likely to be many more Sandra Kurtzig in the years ahead.
It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that businesses operated by women are small because ______.
A. women prefer a small intimate setting
B. women can’t deal with money
C. women are not able to borrow money easily
D. many women fail at large businesses
Chọn C.
Đáp án C
Dịch câu hỏi: Có thể suy ra từ các đoạn văn mà tác giả tin rằng phụ nữ điều hành kinh doanh có quy mô nhỏ vì _______.
A. Phụ nữ thích một sự thiết lập nhỏ và gần gũi.
B. Phụ nữ không thể giải quyết chuyện tiền bạc.
C. Phụ nữ không thể vay tiền dễ dàng.
D. Nhiều phụ nữ thất bại ở các doanh nghiệp lớn.
Thông tin: “They still face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money…. Most businesses owned by women are still quite small.” (Họ vẫn còn phải đối mặt với trở ngại trong thế giới kinh doanh, đặc biệt là vấn đề huy động tiền vốn; … Hầu hết các doanh nghiệp thuộc sở hữu của phụ vẫn còn khá nhỏ.)