1. 7. Love is like two people holding two ends of a rubber band: it’s always the one who doesn’t let go who gets hurt more.

2. John Hummel, chief investment officer for AIS Group, a fund manager with $400 million under management, said all the new sources of global oil are expensive to extract, and he sees U.S. shale output falling by 2015.

3. When Beatty and Dunaway took the stage to announce the Best Picture award, Cullinan and Ruiz realized that they still had two best picture envelopes, meaning that the envelope taken on stage was a duplicate for an award that had already been announced.

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5. 中国台湾台东——这座连接了无人小岛三仙岛和台东县的人行桥非常有名，因为它由8座拱桥相连而成。在《孤独星球》2016年“亚洲最佳景点”中，这座沿海小县城也名列其中。

6. Turkey’s foreign ministry angrily rejected the EU criticism. “The EU should realise that the statement fuels extremism, such as xenophobia and anti-Turkish sentiments, because the call to refrain from excessive statements and actions that risk further exacerbating the situation is made only to Turkey, instead of the countries that caused this situation by violating diplomatic conventions and international law,” it said.

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1. The proposed amendment, which is expected to come into force on Jan 1, contains a clause stipulating extended maternity leave and other welfare for couples having children. These are expected to boost the willingness of some couples to have a second child. Many couples have expressed reluctance to have a second child because of the high costs of bringing-up two children and the prejudice they anticipate from employers.

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3. 单词vigilance 联想记忆：

4. avoid

5. Do you feel any of your worksare underrated or wished was a little bit more popular?

6. Economists had forecast a 1.5 per cent annual rate, after a 1.6 per cent reading in September. Beijing's inflation target is "around 3 per cent" this year.

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2. 克普克写道，分析师们常常“认为新兴市场危机易发性的根源在于制度薄弱，这使得这些国家易受经济、金融不稳定的影响。”

3. February 1985 was the last time global surface temperatures fell below the 20th-century average for a given month, meaning that no one younger than 30 has ever lived through a below-average month. The last full year that was colder than the 20th-century average was 1976.