1. 如果答案是“是”，那么也许你是D型人格的人。

2. ?援助工人担心在海地的粮食危机，上周那里飓风桑迪造成了52人死亡。联合国也担心洪灾可能导致霍乱病例急剧上升。在加勒比海桑迪造成至少69人遇难。

3. 该部门期望今年消费增长仍然能够强有力地带动经济增长。

4. 过去4年里束缚经济增长的主要因素就是停滞不前的薪酬水平。时薪年平均增长率仅为2%—仅有过去美国长期薪酬增长率的三分之二。

5. 但这种理念不会让英国退欧或者让特朗普当选总统。

6. “He’s informal, candid and approachable,” says Ginni Rometty, chief executive of IBM, who praises him as “very authentic. It’s the hallmark of a modern CEO. What you see is what you get.”

应用

1. With both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq returning over 14% while the Dow and MidCap 400 each kicking in close to 10%, you would assume that passive investors would have an awful lot to celebrate this year. And indeed, they would have, if it weren’t for those pesky overseas stocks that did nothing but drag on the performance of any diversified portfolio.

2. 尽管增势坚挺，上个月年增长率还是从9月份的下跌0.8%，滑落至下跌1.4%。经济学家原本预计，在截至10月份的12个月里，日本工业产出下滑幅度为0.9%。

3. 岁末来临，二十多部影片轮番上映(hit cinema)。而今年的贺岁片大战随着《龙门飞甲》和《金陵十三钗》的上映而硝烟四起，一场票房PK战也随之拉开帷幕！December is a golde

4. 该项目的另一个好处在于，它鼓励了职业灵活性，让年轻人对曲折的职业道路有所准备，而后者可能在现代职场中是必不可少的。

5. 那么，何种力量将决定大众明年提出的问题？这取决于你的身份（和居住地）。虽然购房者在新的一年里还将迎来高风险的竞购战，但是纽约市的偏远社区（说的就是你，大广场区[Grand Concourse]）将会有大量寻求廉价住宅的潜在居民——所谓廉价，也只是针对那些令多数普通人可望而不可及的黄金地段，相对而言的。

6. ‘I Could Not Forget What Happened to Me That Night With Him’

旧版特色

1. Last month scientists at Illinois University made a breakthrough that could herald a second green revolution for world agriculture – they improved the efficiency of photosynthesis, the process by which plants turn sunlight into the biomass that is the source of all our food.

2. 10. Am I worrying about the future? Worrying about something that hasn’t even happened yet causes stress and anxiety. Focus on the moment in front of you and realize that it is all that exists.

3. 唐纳德·特朗普总统是美国第一位亿万富豪总统，不过，根据上周一公布的《福布斯2017全球富豪榜》，他已经不像过去那么富有了。