1. n. 权力，权威，职权，官方，当局

2. Interbrand的全球首席执行官杰斯·弗兰普顿表示：“苹果、谷歌和可口可乐是世界上最有价值的品牌。因为他们的财务实力雄厚，品牌具有强大的号召力，这是其竞争对手无法比拟的。”

3. 9. 《奎迪》(Creed)，导演：瑞恩·库格勒(Ryan Coogler)。

4. 7.Make Practice Tests

5. 吉祥猴的水墨设计草图由中国当代艺术家、北京奥运会吉祥物“福娃”的创作者之一韩美林设计的。这幅中国传统水墨画的设计被网友认为“萌萌哒”，代表了中国传统艺术风格。节目制作人将吉祥猴命名为“康康”，在中国表健康之意。

6. 专家表示，2016年对中国电影业来说是非凡的一年，因为它实现增长的同时面临着多种挑战，包括互联网的快速发展、中国观众日益高雅的品味和国家的经济衰退。

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1. 今年到目前为止，周星驰的《美人鱼》自二月上旬的贺岁档上映以来，已经取得了5.26亿美元的票房收入。

2. 此外，规模以上工业增加值的同比增长，是在同期出口下滑7.3%的背景下取得的。

3. 新的一年，产自利比亚的原油可能再度流入市场。受国内冲突影响，2013年利比亚的原油出口遭遇重大问题。此外，伊拉克原油产量也将增加。就连已多年被全球市场拒之门外的伊朗也有望重返市场，前提是该国与西方国家达成协议，放松对旨在限制该国发展核武器的制裁。所有这些可能会使中东地区原油日产量增加200万至300万桶。

4. That growth in the value of inbound shipments came despite a strengthening dollar that drove up costs for importers. Import growth valued in local currency terms reflected that relative weakness with a rise of 13 per cent in November.

5. On our increasingly human-dominated planet we can still learn much from the lives of other species. The discovery this year that the Greenland shark lives for 400 years, making it the longest-living vertebrate, puts our hectic lives into perspective.

6. With his technical genius and startup launched, he's not planning on going back and finishing high school, either."This is my third time applying for the Fellowship. I first applied when I was 14," he said. "I told my parents when I first applied and they weren’t really supportive. But then they kind of saw what I was doing in high school, I wasn’t spending my time as effectively as I could. I started spending more of my time at MIT and they understood. When I did receive the fellowship, they were supportive."Fortunately for Sohmers, he's in good hands. He's part of class No. 3 and Thiel fellows have a promising track record so far: it's launched 67 companies that have created 135 full-time jobs and raised $55.4 million in angel and venture funding, the Wall Street Journal's Lora Kolodny reports.At 17, Sohmers is unconcerned that being a high-school dropout will affect his career in any way."If I don’t end up changing the world with this I can find something else," he said. "People think that there’s a big thought war between these two sides [education versus entrepreneurship]. But when it comes to the researchers, they care less about the degrees that you have, and more about what you can actually do."

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1. 住房市场在去年年初表现抢眼，但到年末时则受到不断加重的担忧情绪困扰，这其中包括利率上升、供给制约、信贷收紧及一系列其他问题。

2. charm（n 吸引力；（女人的）魅力）

3. 张天羽的作品“非常丰富和完整”，谷歌涂鸦团队领导瑞安·格米克对《华盛顿邮报》表示，“仿佛每片树叶都有生命”。