1. 7月25日

2. Chinese imports fell 18.8 per cent in October from the same month a year earlier, a slight improvement from the 20.4 per cent year-on-year fall in September. Sharply lower prices of oil and other commodities also helped scythe the bill.

3. The app D'Aloisio designed, Summly, compresses long pieces of text into a few representative sentences. When he released an early iteration, tech observers realized that an app that could deliver brief, accurate summaries would be hugely valuable in a world where we read everything-from news stories to corporate reports-on our phones, on the go. The app attracted the interest of investors around the world, ranging from Hollywood celebrities to Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, the wealthiest man in Asia.

4. 有时，你会不会因为忘记把车钥匙放哪而上班迟到？或者是完全忘记和朋友喝咖啡的约定，结果收到朋友问你在哪里的短信才突然想起和朋友有约？抑或是早就不记得小学的时候那位你最喜欢的老师的名字了？记忆问题几乎困扰着每一个人，只是程度不同而已，但是科学家认为，或许你可以通过进行一些特定的活动、食用一些特定的食物或者采用一些特定的记忆方法来提高自己的记忆力，并且降低患阿尔茨海默症和痴呆的风险。

5. 《今日美国》(USA Today)说，对大多数城市来讲，就业复苏即使能实现，也得是在好几年过后。浏览知名分析师梅瑞迪斯?惠特尼(Meredith Whitney)新书《州的命运》(The Fate of States)时你会看到，她提醒说，“过多的养老金会挤出教育支出等自由派目标，也会挤出保守派希望实现的减税目标”。

6. Trium is ranked first for the work experience of its alumni before the programme, second for aims achieved and third for international course experience. The programme is second for average salary ($307,003) of alumni three years after graduation, just behind the Kellogg/HKUST programme.

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1. The survey is based on costs of over 160 items ranging from food and clothing, to domestic help, transport and utilities.

2. 节目33 歌曲《我爱你中国》，汪峰

3. Hannah Kuchler is San Francisco correspondent

4. Sometimes Anna’s hair, which is lighter than Ms. Chastain’s natural color, is pulled back, creating layers and a bit of playfulness, but still maintaining authority.

5. 2. Staying too long in a job that you want to leave

6. Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or poiticians - but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles - and all of you are somebody's child. 在这里，您可能是您政府商业人士的代表、组织者、记者或政客。但您们也是父亲和母亲、兄弟和姐妹、阿姨和叔叔，你们都会或多或少的为了下一代而活着。

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1. rid笑+ic+ulous多…的→多笑的→可笑的

2. She created a whole world around the device -- one populated by humans, a whale in a top hat and dragons.

3. Since 2005, the business book of the year award has gone to the book that provides “the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues”. The 2014 winner was Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.