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13.  Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged in 1911，Scott Joplin's ragtime opera＂Treemonisha＂was not produced　until 1972，sixty-one years after its completion．

(A)  Except for a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(B)  Except for a concert performance with the composer himself staging it

(C)  Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself

(D)  Excepting a concert performance that the composer himself staged

(E) With the exception of a concert performance with the staging done by the composer himself

在解释D时，OG说：excepting usually appears in negative consructions. 这句话什么意思？有人能举个例子吗？

14. From the time of its defeat by the Germans in 1940 until its liberation in 1944，France was a bitter and divided country；a kind of civil war raged in the Vichy government between those who wanted to collaborate with the Nazis with those who opposed them．

14. From the time of its defeat by the Germans in 1940 until its liberation in 1944，France was a bitter and divided country；a kind of civil war raged in the Vichy government between those who wanted to collaborate with the Nazis with those who opposed them．

(A)  between those who wanted to collaborate with the Nazis with those who opposed

(B)  between those who wanted to collaborate with the Nazis and those who opposed

(C)  between those wanting to collaborate with the Nazis with those opposing

(D)  among those who wanted to collaborate with the Nazis and those who opposed

(E)  among those wanting to collaborate with the Nazis with those opposing

From the time of its defeat by the Germans in 1940 until its liberation in 1944，这里的until是理解成from...until...呢？还是有其他的解释？

谢谢大家！

14：from...until=from...to...

13 not sure.

13: 不知耶

14: 應是from....to....之意吧!

嗯，谢谢大家！关于这个excepting，看来要去查查语法书了。