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Read the article below about starting up new ventures. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the next p
Read the article below about starting up new ventures. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the next p
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Read the article below about starting up new ventures.
Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the next page.
For each question(19-33), mark one letter(A, B, C or D)on your Answer Sheet.
There is an example at the beginning(0).
Planning the Start-up? Seize the Day...
Executives who say they’d love to leave the battleship to skipper a nimble start-up fall back(0)B a variety of perfectly legitimate rationales for why it’s not yet time: I need to acquire more【C1】______, to figure out how financing really【C2】______, and so on. While they are waiting for everything to fall into【C3】______, managers are acquiring big-company habits that can hurt them when they finally make the【C4】______
Long tenures in corporate jobs keep executives from becoming the "jack-of-al I-trades" that new ventures generally【C5】______. They get used to having HR specialists take care of HR issues, finance aces prepare reports, and IT whizzes【C6】______the company infrastructure.【C7】______people in big companies are successful "because they can manage a【C8】______," says Barry Nails, the founder of Masergy, a Texas-based Telecom. But"in an early-stage company,there is no such thing as a manager. Everyone is a【C9】______, including the CEO," he says. Entrepreneurs are more effective at building ventures from【C10】______once they have attained a certain level of maturity and self-knowledge, but they can achieve that without spending most of their working lives in corporate jobs. In my research on thousands of founders of high-potential ventures that had succeeded in【C11】______capital from professional investors, 76% had worked for 20 years or less before founding their first ventures—they had【C12】______the leap by the time they were in their early forties.
And there is another point in favor【C13】______leaping sooner rather than later: executives who stay around the corporation until they achieve senior positions may be aging themselves out of what could be a satisfying life in start-ups.
Waiting for the perfect time to jump is usually futile, for there is no moment that’s【C14】______perfect. So even if you are early in your corporate career, when a winning new-business idea comes along and sparks an entrepreneurial【C15】______in you, carpe diem.
Example:
A to B on C down D into
【C12】
选项
A、made
B、achieved
C、taken
D、done
答案
C
解析
此处考查名词和动词的搭配。此处句意为:他们在四十岁出头的时候就跨出了那一步。文中的leap意为“跨越,跳跃”,和step一样与take搭配,意为迈出那一步。故C项为答案。
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