[单项选择]As used in the passage, moderate most nearly means ______.
A. direct
B. lessen
C. move to middle
D. use

[单项选择]The underlined word "arable" most nearly means "________ ".


A. thickly settled
B. suitable for farming
C. fit for mining
D. unable to be improved

[单项选择]The word "litigants" means most nearly ______.


A. jury members
B. commentators
C. parties in a lawsuit
D. taxpayers

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Passage Three
The intelligence test used most often today are based on the work of a Frenchman, Alfred Bi net. In 1905, Binet was asked by the French Ministry of Education to develop a way to identify those children in French schools who were too "mentally deficient (不足的)" to benefit from ordinary schooling and who needed special education. The tests had to distinguish those who were merely be hind in school from those who were actually mentally deficient.
The items that Binet and his colleague Theophile Simon included on the test were chosen on the basis of their ideas about intelligence. Binet and Simon believed intelligence includes such abilities as understanding the meaning of words; solving problems, and making commonsense judgements. Two other important assumptions also shaped Binet’ s and Simon’ s work. (1) that children with more intelligence will do better in school and (2) that older children have a greater ability than youn
A. To select, top students.
B. To know who had received ordinary schooling.
C. To put students in a right order.
D. To make sure who required particular treatment.

[单项选择]Most frequently used algorithm for page replacement is
A. LRU
B. FIFO
C. OPT
D. PPT

[单项选择]"a hundred percent witness" most probably means ______.


A. be was patient and talkative
B. he was a totally reliable witness
C. he was well - informed
D. he was the only person interviewed in the incident

[单项选择]Which one of the following is the most widely used measure of inflation （　） 　
A. The Consumer Price Index.
B. The Index of Leading Economic Indicators.
C. The prime rate.
D. The Federal Funds rate.

[单项选择]The word "undermine" (Para. 2) most probably means ______.


A. go below
B. weaken
C. effect
D. destroy

[单项选择]The word "liability" most probably means______.


A. disadvantage
B. advantage
C. misfortune
D. trouble

[单项选择]The word "errant" (Para. 2) most probably means ______.


A. difficult
B. tight
C. correct
D. remarkable

[单项选择]The word "bug" used in Paragraph 5 means ______.
A. a bacterium
B. a cold
C. a flu
D. a virus

[单项选择]"Capital punishment" most probably means _________.


A. life sentence
B. severe punishment
C. fine
D. sentence of death

[单选题]The suffix “nimbus”, used in naming clouds, means a _______ .
A.cloud with extensive vertical development
B.layered clouds that form near the surface
C.rain clouds
D.dark massive, towering cloud

[单项选择]Which condition does the author feel has nearly destroyed our cities


A. Lack of financial planning.
B. The breakup of the family.
C. Natural disasters in many regions.
D. The excessive growth of motors.

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For nearly ten years,the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing,specifying,constructing,and documenting the(1)of a software-intensive system.As the(2)standard modeling language,the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project(3).The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended the language's scope and viability.Its inherent expressiveness allows users to(4)everything from enterprise information systems and distributed Web-based applications to real-time embedded systems. 　　
The UML is not limited to modeling software.In fact,it is expressive enough to model (5)systems,such as workflow in the legal system,the structure and behavior of a patient healthcare system,software engineering in aircraft combat systems,and the design of hardware. 　　
To understand the UML,you need to form a conceptual model of the language,and this requires learning three major elements:the UML's basic building blocks,the
A. investors
B. developers
C. designers
D. stakeholders