1. 不过，这种局面正发生变化。2013年基准布伦特原油价格的一次大波动发生在8月份，当时国际社会干预叙利亚的可能性似乎越来越大。虽然在美国牵头进行空袭的威胁下，在伦敦洲际交易所(IntercontinentalExchange)交易的布伦特原油价格上涨了5%，但并没有逼近2013年高点。

2. ?Bond is supremely confident. This makes him sexy. It also makes him great at his job; being overconfident often gives better results than being objective and rational. (We'd all be better off moderately overconfident.) Neither men or women prefer modest guys. Bond has the personality of a trained man of action: SWAT team members differed from the average person by being extremely confident ("self-deceptive enhancement"), more emotionally stable and more resilient.

3. 单词adamant 联想记忆：

4. New year’s events can be anticlimactic. Not so in China where stock markets began 2016 with enough excitement to make traders choke on their bubbles: Shanghai stocks dropped 7 per cent on Monday, Shenzhen more than 8 per cent. It could have been worse. A new mechanism that suspends trading after a drop of 7 per cent halted play early — in this instance, by an hour and a half.

5. Awards: Despite early wins for VW’s Golf GTI, the Detroit-centric jurors of the North American Car and Truck award 2015 prizes to Ford’s Mustang as well as Ford’s F-150 pickup truck.

6. 难怪各银行开始变得有创造力。

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1. 由于制度是在专制统治下制定的，那么反对派就会被迫反叛或者顺从。

2. “This young Vermonter clearly has an interest in service and anyone putting ideas forward with the goal of making Vermont a better place is appreciated here,” Scott's spokeswoman, Rebecca Kelley, tells PEOPLE.

3. 自2007年4月以来，全球最具价值品牌100强的品牌价值增长106%。同期标准普尔500指数(S&P 500)和MSCI明晟全球指数(MSCI world index)分别上涨61%和21%。

4. 福布斯杂志本周二发布全球收入最高女星排行榜，《饥饿游戏》女星詹妮弗-劳伦斯连续第二年蝉联榜首，收入约为4600万美元。排名第二的是著名美国谐星梅丽莎?麦卡西。

5. 然而，她辩称，亚洲ETF流动性较低的问题反映了基金分销体系未能激励中介销售ETF。她说：“我认为没有快速的解决办法，但如果亚洲转向收费模式，会出现起色。”

6. The Belt and Road Initiative: The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road

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1. More than 27,000 vacancies are offered by over 120 central departments and their affiliated public institutions in the 2017 civil servant recruitment drive. The number of vacancies is about the same as 2016.

2. “Our population and employment is at an all-time high and growing. That puts significant pressure on rents and prices,” said Mark Willis, the executive director of the New York University Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. “There is no reason now to think that these trends are likely to change.”

3. 总排名76位的新加坡管理大学(Singapore Management University)李光前商学院(Lee Kong Chian School of Business)是首家进入这一排行榜的新加坡商学院。今年共7家亚洲商学院上榜。李光前商学院校友在亚洲商学院中最具国际流动性。他们在流动性指标方面排名第25，比在亚洲商学院中流动性排第二的台湾国立中山大学(National Sun Yat-Sen University)高57位。