1. People promoting driverless cars, the most hyped industry segment of the moment, became world leaders in verbiage. Elon Musk claimed to be “laser-focused on achieving full self-driving capability on one integrated platform with an order of magnitude greater safety than the average manually driven car” (ie Tesla cars must stop crashing).

2. 劳伦斯2016年的收入比2015年（5200万美元）减少了11.5%。本周四福布斯杂志还将发布2016年收入最高的男星排行榜。去年荣膺榜首的是小罗伯特-唐尼，收入约为8000万美元。

3. 2002年，电视剧《绝望主妇》的制片人马克·切利正在家和他母亲看着电视。那天（以及前几天）的头条新闻是安德烈·耶茨案件审判。她因在浴缸里溺死自己的5个孩子而受审。马克转身问他母亲："你能想象一个女人究竟是多么绝望才会杀了亲生孩子？"

4. inspiring

5. May the New Year bring many good things and rich blessings to you and all those you love!

6. 根据两位了解相关计划的人士的说法，中国政府正在禁止中国旅游团体赴韩国旅游，这是对韩国拟部署美制萨德(Thaad)反导系统的最新报复手段。

应用

1. adj. 优雅的

2. 又或者，今年是一群有跟虐待、性或其他有关的故事要讲的女性。她们其中几个人在我们的页面上分享了“我也是”(#MeToo)的经历。卡洛塔·加尔(Carlotta Gall)讲述了汉达·阿亚里(Henda Ayari)的故事。后者是一名拥有北非血统的法国公民，也是一名反萨拉菲派活动人士。她指控牛津大学某知名教授强奸了她。

3. 9. Build your “A team”.

4. This is the sixth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, featuring a record-breaking 42 disciplines, making it the largest-ever ranking of the kind. The expert opinion of the world's top 76,798 academics and 44,426 employers informed the results, alongside the analysis of 28.5 million research papers and over 113 million citations sourced from the Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric database, said QS.

5. With an 8.5-percent increase in profits, industrial enterprises reversed the previous year's negative growth of 2.3 percent.

6. 《丛林故事》将于2016年4月15日在全球上映。

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1. Mr Koepke argues, however, that the role of US interest rates in provoking EM crises has not been fully understood. He presents evidence that the probability of EM crises is substantially higher during a conjunction of three conditions: during a Fed tightening cycle, when the federal funds rate is above its natural rate (the rate that leads actual output to converge to potential output), and when market participants are surprised by signals that the Fed will tighten policy faster than previously expected.

2. 不会。事情可能会这样发展：在一次试运营（其间出现多次交易停止）后，比特币期货将慢慢开始吸引机构资金。美国商品期货交易委员会(CFTC)的持仓数据将反映出资金管理公司对该产品存在的长期偏见。随着减仓的巨额成本变得不言自明，多头将越来越大声地抱怨围绕结算时间的例行分歧。就在参议院计划举行听证会调查潜在的市场操纵行为时，比特币期货价格将跌破现货价格，引发抛售。

3. 公众宗教研究机构与宗教新闻通讯社联合开展的这项调查显示，不同政治派别和不同宗教信仰的人们对于恶劣天气的观念存在分歧，今年已经发生了多起严重的高温和干旱灾害。