In the past, it used to be very difficult to start a business, () the lack of capital and business information.

Why could not ceramics be used widely in the past？

A．Because of their brittleness.

B．Because people didn't know how to use them.

C．Because they were not useful.

D．Because they could not resist heat.

The equipment that connects with the actors in the experiment is used for______.

A．recalling the feelings from the past

B．recording the activity of their involuntary nervous systems

C．instructing their facial expression

D．training people's self-consciousness

ing the past four months.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

of the past" means ______.

A．patients used to cry and ask if there was a doctor in the house

B．now people probably would not ask if there is a doctor in the house

C．patients are now still asking if there is a doctor in the house

D．in the past people often cried and asked ff there was a doctor in the house

The author's purpose in this passage is to______.

A．define the economic terms used in discussion of employment

B．criticize the decisions of past administrations during recession years

C．call for the application of positive economic control policies in the year that lie ahead

D．allay current fears about increasing unemployment

According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is NOT true？______.

A．In the past, bones might be used to decide why people fell ill.

B．In pre-industrial societies priests sometimes treated patients by singing.

C．Modern medicine is so complicated that sociology no longer has a place in it.

D．There were only two roles in an elementary medical system, the patient and the one who tried to cure him.

e streets are not as crowded as they used to be．

M：But I know by the newspaper that there are more people living here than that ten years ago．

Q：What can we learn about the city？

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A．The population has increased.

B．The population has decreased.

C．The population has remained the same.

D．The population is getting older.

A.“when” is often used to talk about an event that takes place at the same time as some longer action or event described in the main clause

B.“As” can also be used when we want to say that when one thing changes, another thing changes at the same time

C.In formal speech and writing, we can often leave out “subject + be” in clauses with “when” and “while” if the main and subordinate clause refer to the same subject

D.“While” is used when you are mentioning a time or event in the past and indicating that a situation has continued from then until now