1. Employment is crucial to ensuring people’s well-being. We will focus our efforts on facilitating employment to see that through their hard work, people can create wealth and realize their full potential.

2. 《财富》美国500强公司苹果（Apple）)已宣布，将从现金中拿出300亿美元用于股票回购。这个消息让投资者很高兴：股价暴涨，甚至在消息发布一周后，这只股票相对于标准普尔指数在这7天上涨了12%。苹果有一项规模更大、总额高达1300亿美元的资本回报计划，将一直延续到2015年，而这些回购就是这项计划的一部分。

3. Traders heading for the exits: 'Unsustainable trends can survive much longer than most people anticipate, but they do end when their 'time is up, at the culmination of their time cycles.' They analyzed more than 20 cycles: 'Nearly unanimously point to tectonic shifts in the months and years ahead.'

4. Consoles: PlayStation 4

5. 一部富有感染力的、描写一名年轻黑人男同性恋成长故事的影片《月光男孩》(Moonlight)，获得2017年奥斯卡(Oscar)最佳影片奖。不过，该片险些与此奖项擦肩而过，原因是在混乱的颁奖现场，此奖项曾被误颁给了《爱乐之城》(La La Land)。

6. Astronomers confirmed a key part of Einstein’s general theory of relativity in 2016 when they announced that the LIGO array had detected gravitational waves released by the collision of two black holes. The researchers won a Nobel Prize for the discovery. But they’re not done: In October, scientists announced the finding of two dead stars colliding — not only hearing the ripples in space-time they made, but confirming the event visually with powerful telescopes. Collisions of neutron stars are believed to be the source of all heavy metals in the universe, including gold and silver, and the detection by LIGO helps verify accepted explanations of how the chemistry of the universe formed.

应用

1. 微博和微信等社交平台是网红扩大交流的重要平台，而广告、电商和粉丝的付费使网红经济成为可能。

2. 有些腐烂的鸡爪竟然出产于1967年，在腥臭扑鼻的处理场里，这些鸡爪经过漂白剂和其它化学物质“清洁”、涨泡、漂白流程之后，便可重新上市出售。

3. Accelerating price growth for new housing in cities across China lost more steam in November amid a flurry of purchasing curbs in major cities, though price gains from a year earlier remained comfortably in double-digit territory.

4. 关于7月9日的枪击案，调查人员已逮捕两名年轻人，其中一名18岁。

5. 越南昆岛——越南昆岛曾是臭名昭著的昆岛监狱所在地，由16座独立的小岛组成；现在，它的美景及海鲜正变得越来越有名气。

6. 输家：尼克斯

旧版特色

1. Company: Eventbrite

2. Officials with the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) said the film industry in China kept a steady development momentum in 2016 amid the "new normal" of the country's economic development.

3. 2016年奥运会和2014年足球世界杯主办城市里约打败了希腊，成为搜索次数最多的旅游目的地。