[单选题]Nearly a month had gone by ____________ they showed some sign of giving up the price for which they had held out.
A.until
B.while
C.before
D.so that

[单选题]Nearly a month had gone by ______ theyshowed some sign of giving up the price for which they had held out.
A.until
B.while
C.before
D.so that

[单选题]Text 1 Last year nearly one miUion Americans filed for bankruptcy.That is far fewer than the number who used to seek bankruptcy protection before the law was made tougher a decade ago.This reform may have done more harm than good.The aim of bankniptcy law is to give people relief from unpay-able debts.Some two-thirds of individual bankruptcies are due to a lost job.Many bankrupts need time to get back on their feet.In the mid-2000s Chapter 7 rules made it easy to wash away debts.That initated credit-card finns,which claimed that spendthrifts abused the system;so in 2005 the law was toughened.The idea was to shift people to a Chapter 13 bankruptcy,where they would have to repay some of the debt.The reform had a big impact.At least at first,Chapter 13 filings rose relative to Chapter 7 ones.And a new paper,from Stefania Albanesi,of the New York Federal Reserve,and Jaromir Nosal,of Columbia University,finds that the reform led to a permanent drop in the bankruptcy rate.However,other recent research suggests that this is not necessarily a good thing.Will Dobbie,of Princeton University,and Jae Song,of the SociaJ Securiiy AdminisLration,look at Chapter 13 bankrupLcies before the reforms of 2005.They link half a million bankruptcy filings to tax records and use a novel technique to analyse them.Because some bankruptcy judges are more merciful than others,people in similar straits may end up wiLh different bankruptcy decisions.This quirk allows some useful comparisons.Messrs Dobbie and Song argue that easier bankruptcy laws have good microeconomic effects.lf a creditor may no longer claim large chunks of a bankrupt's salary,that may increase his incentive to work-and decrease his need to slip out of town,change his job and close down his bank account.On average,those granted bankrupLcy eamed over 6,000 more in the subsequent year than similarly-placed plaintiffs who were rejected.The unlucky ones found it trickier to service their mortgages.Michelle White of the University of California,San Diego and colleagues found that bankruptcy reform caused the default rate on prime mortgages to rise 23%.Making consumer-bankruptcy law more debtor-friendly could hit Americans in other ways.If lenders are exposed to bigger losses,some argue,interest rates for such things as creditcards are bound to rise.But that danger can be overstated.Credit-card comparues may be reluctant to charge rates higher than their competitors'lest they attract more customers-those not put off by high rates because they know that,with luck,they won't have to pay their debts back. The word"sLraits"（Line 5,Para.3）is closest in meaning to_____
A.channels
B.plights
C.contexts
D.phenomena

[单选题]__have gone abroad.
A.The White
B.The Whites
C.The White's
D.The Whites'

[单选题]This species has nearly died out because its habitat is being destroyed.
A.turned dead
B.passed by
C.carried away
D.become extinct

[单选题]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 rules that dictate how those building blocks may be put together,and some common mechanisms that apply throughout the UML. （1）____
A.classes
B.components
C.sequences
D.artifacts

[单选题]By the end of last year, nearly a million cars __________in that auto factory.
A.had produced
B.had been produced
C.would be produced
D.were produced

[不定项选择题]In nearly every town or city center in the UK, on most days of the week you can find one or more people standing in the street selling a magazine 21 The Big Issue. These people are all 22 , but they are not begging for money. 23 , they are selling the magazine as a means(手段) of 24 a small but respectable living. The Big Issue magazine was 25 in 1991 by Jon Bird and Gordon Roddick after they 26 that there were many homeless people who were 27 on the streets of London. On a previous (之前的) 28 to New York, one of them had seen homeless people selling a news- paper known as Street News 29 they decided to set up something 30 in the British capital. Nowadays, The Big Issue has 31 all over the UK and there are even different versions(版本) of the magazine in different parts of the 32 The sellers buy each magazine from the organization for seventy pence and then sell it to a 33 or one pound fifty. By working　with The Big Issue, many people have been 34 to escape from homelessness, and 35 many of them have moved on to new jobs and new lives. 第（27）题选
A.living
B.driving
C.working
D.drawing