挖空听力文字材料(1-2-5-7).doc

Unit 1 Item 1 A business plan, in the words of the Small Business Administration in Washington, is a tool with three basic (1) __________. As a communication tool, it can show possible investors how well you have (2) ___________ your ideas. As a management tool, it can list goals and ways to (3) ___________ progress. And as a planning tool, it can help (4) _________ a business around problems. For people starting a new business, the biggest problems commonly involve financing. (5) ___________ often seek venture capital. This is money from wealthy (6) ___________ or investment companies for the purpose of building new businesses. Each year, entrepreneurs with ideas for the “next big thing” (7) __________ venture capitalists with business plans. But John Mullins of the London Business School, writing in the Wall Street Journal, says most business plans are never even (8) ___________ read. A good business plan, he says, must (9) __________ a problem that the new business will solve. Many plans fail to show how a product or service (10) _________ a need. Item 2 Businesses are (1) ___________ in different ways to meet different needs. The (2) __________ form of business is called an individual proprietorship. The proprietor owns all of the property of the business and is (3) ___________ for everything. This means that the proprietor gets to keep all of the (4) ___________ of the business, but also (5) __________ pay any debts. The law recognizes no difference between the owner and the business. Another kind of business is the (6) ___________. Two or more people go into business together. An agreement is usually needed to decide how much of the partnership each person controls. There are limited liability partnerships. These have full partners and limited partners. Limited partners may not (7) __________ as much in the profits, but they also do not have as many responsibilities. Doctors, lawyers and accountants often (8) __________ partnerships to share the profits and ri