1. A report by human resources website Zhaopin released recently found that only 3.1 percent of students expecting to graduate in July said they will start their own business, down from 6.3 percent in 2015.

2. Closer to home, fake official data are just as prevalent. The UK’s Office for National Statistics on Tuesday reported that British inflation, measured by its longstanding retail prices index, rose to 4.1 per cent in December. This number is nonsense and the ONS knows it. It tells people the RPI “does not meet the required standard” to be given a quality stamp, yet it has refused since 2012 to take steps to improve the measure and bring it closer to the lower headline measure of 3 per cent.

3. 眼看11月就要过去了，正如我周一写的那样，往年经验表明，9支球队很有可能已经被踢出季后赛地竞争行列了。然而，他们中没有一支球队表明要摆烂。

4. 7. Hearing Aid

5. “我才17岁——我想留在家人和朋友身边，继续上学，”他说，“在可以预见的未来里，我将留在伦敦。”

6. Many believe the population is no longer a major threat to China's resources and environment. Instead, China's population challenges have shifted to low birth rates, an aging society and a widening gender imbalance. China has already experienced a shortage of skilled workers in places like the Pearl River Delta, so it might not be long before we see major reforms.

应用

1. 学校依赖于多种多样的技术，确保授课的活泼和互动性，包括虚拟课堂、直播授课以及多媒体教学资料。校友们被要求对授课质量进行评价，并说明在线考试的效果如何。结果令人鼓舞。在线授课质量似乎越来越好。在线授课所有方面的得分都比前几年高，这表明学员满意度提高。

2. neg否认+lect选择→不选择→忽视，不顾

3. While regulators in the US fret that the pace of growth in the exchange traded fund market may be too explosive, their counterparts in Asia along with asset managers and distributors sweat over what more can be done to raise investor interest.

4. 在库克雄辩地捍卫平等之际，美国同性恋婚姻运动遭遇了不顺的一年，也恰逢舆论正激烈批评包括苹果在内的硅谷公司的管理者缺乏多样性，而这些管理者对美国文化具有巨大的影响力。

5. 凯投宏观(Capital Economics)中国经济学家朱利安?埃文斯-普里查德(Julian Evans-Pritchard)评论道：“结果是，上个月中国的贸易看起来惊人强劲。在全球需求强劲的背景下，我们预期未来数月出口还将继续表现良好。”

6. 实际上，1至10月份的增速小幅升至8.3%。该指标大致反映了长期支出。

旧版特色

1. Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister whose People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) is slightly ahead of the PVV, has seen his poll numbers rise in recent days because of his hardline stance with Ankara. On Tuesday he called Mr Erdogan’s comments “a disgusting distortion of history”, adding: “We will not lower ourselves to this level. It is totally unacceptable.”

2. Gunmen kidnapped 18 Turkish workers Wednesday in Iraq's capital.

3. Some of my work has been set inAmerica, so I am very pleased and honored that my work is loved here.