单选题The European online fashion business.A has gone through the most difficult timesB was in a big boom some time agoC lost support of all its stockholdersD made much money from urban sportswear last year

Passage 1　　Britain is still home to some of the world’s best scientists—but when it comes to giving them the money to turn their ideas into world-beating companies we are third-rate. True?　　“That’s gulf,” is the impatient response of Anne Glover, a leading venture capitalist.　　She believes this is the best time since the short-lived dot corn bubble for anyone looking to get their idea funded: “It’s never been better, except during the boom for a short nine-month period.”　　Not from the perspective of Noah Freedman, who has tried to get venture capital firms interested in Ionscope, a firm using world-leading science from Imperial College and Cambridge University. “I don’t think the situation has improved in the UK over the last decade,” he says.　　But Anne Glover, whose venture capital firm Amadeus Capital has backed businesses such as lastminute, corn, Cambridge Silicon Radio and Plastic Logic, points to the figures.　　Last year ￡lbn of venture capital money was invested in young firms in the UK—that’s more than a third of all the money invested across Europe.　　“We get beaten up all the time,” says Ms Glover, “but which other sector has as big a share of the European market?”　　And just as in other industries there are fashions in venture capital. What’s hot right now? Mobile technology, semi-conductors, and consumer internet firms, according to Amadeus—rather similar to what was getting funded during the last booming 2000.　　That ended with a bust which sawn many start-ups disappear and “was followed by several years in which venture capitalists seemed to have gone into hiding. But Anne Glover says they’ve come through the experience stronger.　　“The ones who have survived the boom and bust are experienced and well-funded and have similar global aspirations to the best entrepreneurs.”　　But Noah Freedman, an entrepreneur who was previously involved in Brainspark, an incubator for technology start-ups, says there is still a funding gap.　　Ionscope, which makes very high resolution microscopes, was not able to raise venture capital until it had sold its first products. “The bottom line is that in the UK, it may be easy to get venture capital money to fund growth of an established concept or business, but it is exceptionally difficult to get seed and start-up money for real innovation.”　　Anne Glover says the real problem is a lack of ambition, from both investors and entrepreneurs.　　“We maybe spread our money too thinly rather than concentrate on the best ideas. When we’ve got a world-leading company that’s the point where we need to finance it properly.”　　She says she spends more time trying to raise the ambitions of start-up firms rather than lower them.　　So what’s the lesson from those who have made it? Alex van Someren is one entrepreneur who did raise the money to create a successful global business.　　His Cambridge-based internet security company Ncipher raised venture capital money between 1996 and 2000, and then floated just in the nick of time before the stock market crash.　　He believes we are making progress: “Both investors and the people they invest in have become much more sophisticated.” He says the problem is not a lack of money or ideas. “There is plenty of both—but ideas are not the same as investable businesses.”　　But he says young companies are now more likely to turn to business angels—often people who have built their own firms—rather than venture capitalists: “Angels have done it themselves, so they bring more added value—and they’re willing to invest in businesses too small for venture funds to look at.”　　What Britain doesn’t have—despite attempts to brand Cambridge as Silicon Fen—is one area that can compete with Silicon Valley as a place which produces innovative businesses and the investors to fund them.　　But Anne Glover says we shouldn’t get hung up on the comparison: “You would find the same inferiority complex in Indiana or Wisconsin—Silicon Valley is unique. It’s difficult to raise venture capital anywhere in the world. Entrepreneurship is hard and don’t expect it to be easy.”　　The good news is that, when it comes to innovation, Britain has a growing number of entrepreneurs who have been there and done that.　　Many are now starting new firms or investing in other start-ups. Their only fear is that the latest boom in technology investment could melt away like the last one.　　1. Briefly describe the last boom.　　2. What advantages have the companies which survived last boom got?　　3. What is the difference on capital choice for young companies between the last boom and this latest one? Why?

The European online fashion business.

I lost my wallet last week, but _____,it didn't contain much money.

_____ our great surprise, our company has made much more profit than we expected last year.

The European online fashion business __________.

In your database， online redo log files are multiplexed and one of the members in a group is lost due to media failure.  How would you recover the lost redo log member？（）

In your database， online redo log files are multiplexed and one of the members in a group is lost due to media failure？ How would you recover the lost redo log member？（）

Online retailer Dressmart _______.

According to the last paragraph, it will be the most difficult for a person who has lost the hearing in one ear to tell ______.

A vessel behaves as if all of its weight is acting downward through the center of gravity，and all its support is acting upward through the（）.

Your database is configured in NOARCHIVELOG mode. Due to a media failure， you have lost one of the datafiles belonging to a read-only tablespace. You know that the last backup was performed after the tablespace was made read-only. Which action should you take to restore the missing datafile in the minimum amount of time？（）

Your test database is configured to run in NOARCHIVELOG mode. One of the data files in the USERS tablespace is lost due to a media failure. You notice that all the online redo logs have been overwritten sincethe last backup.  What would you do to recover the data file（）

In a married falls rig at the after end of a hatch，a boom is rigged in a fore and aft line through its heel.Stresses on the outboard guy will be LEAST if the guy is made fast at a point（）.

Which timing mode is most appropriate for an ONS 15454 that has lost its BITS-1 and optical references？（）

In a married falls rig at the after end of a hatch , a boom is rigged in a fore and aft line through its heel . Stresses on the outboard guy will be least if the guy is made fast at a point（）.

—We’ve no money and the last bus has gone. Any ______ ideas?—Oh, Tom’ll drive home from work at this time. Ask him for a ride?