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【答案解析】[听力原文]
Today, researchers and marketers have identified a segment that is now labeled SOHO. It means small offices, home offices, whether they are high-tech start ups or women selling Mary Kay. But they drive America's economic growth and have created most of the new jobs in the last 20 years. These companies accounted for 6 million of the 7.7 million jobs that were added to the economy between 2000 and 2007. Small businesses represent over 90% of all businesses in the U.S. with an economic output greater than Germany or France or the UK.
Reportedly, home based workers earn more money. The 46 million home based workers in the United States, including a large number of women, working at home in an attempt to better balance work and family, earn 28% more than the average office worker, and spend less time making their pay. Of course this could be due, in part, to the fact that more experienced and aggressive workers tend to start their own businesses.
Remember, going into business on your own, or from a home office, may mean making do with less. But it can also mean achieving more: more independence, more challenges, more results. In the long run it may mean more money for you and your family. In a word, doing it on your own means freedom to grow, experiment and learn. If you are successful, you won't have to go and ask for a raise or accept what you're given, or worry about being turned out to pasture when a younger version of yourself comes along. You will have the freedom to enjoy the profits of your own work, and the continuing growth and profit which comes from owning your own business.