1. Civil War takes place after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, when the government decides that the Avengers should work under them and not on their own. Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, is against this idea whereas Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, is with the government. This leads to a conflict between Captain America and Iron Man.

2. During the same period, Braziland Russia slashed their holdings to USD 261.7 billion and USD 108.9 billion,respectively.

3. According to local media, the gang, based in Nanning, the capital city of south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, was able to make up to 16,000 yuan (￡1,750) profit on every tonne of the putrid meat, by injecting it with chemicals, increasing its weight by 50 per cent.

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5. “The steady and now record-breaking rise in average global temperatures is not an issue for another day,” Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor who is spending tens of millions of dollars of his personal fortune to battle climate change, said in a statement. “It’s a clear and present danger that poses major economic, health, environmental and geopolitical risks.”

6. 女王每次都是飞机一停就像子弹一样迅速下飞机。

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1. 但支撑其大国地位的经济基础正逐步下滑。

2. 回顾今天这场比赛，胜利来得并不容易。猛龙队曾一举逆转了18分的劣势，并在最后时刻拥有球权并只落后1分。但是最终，后卫凯尔·洛瑞被吹罚了一次进攻犯规，而库里依靠两记罚球为勇士队锁定胜局。

3. This is all bad news for investors, just as America's 30-year bond bull is ending.

4. If you have been out of work for a long time, it may be time to consider taking a job you wouldn't have looked at before.

5. The education sector has remained largely unchanged by online service delivery — but could be transformed dramatically in 2018.

6. Over the first weekend of 2015 the second-largest bitcoin exchange, Slovenia-based Bitstamp, was victim of a hack to the tune of some $5 million U.S. dollars’ worth of the digital currency. As the tech press were quick to point out, it was a worrisome start to the year for a digital currency that Quartz had already declared “the worst investment of 2014.” And if you look at its performance between Jan 1, 2014 and Jan. 1, 2015, that’s not wrong: bitcoin ended the year at 39% of the value it started with.

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2. Typically, he writes, analysts “see the root cause of emerging markets’ susceptibility to crises in weak institutions that make countries vulnerable to economic and financial instability.”

3. 澳大利亚一名女子将其猫咪们遗弃在家里，最后这些猫咪们竟同类相食，目前该女子已被判虐待动物罪。