1. The annual national civil service exam kicked off last Sunday, and some recent hot topics - such as college graduates starting their own businesses and the Yutu (Jade Rabbit) lunar rover - appeared in the exam questions.

2. 当年秋天开学后，达洛伊西奥开始感觉到肩上背负起了来自投资方的巨大压力。他需要改善软件的运算法则，于是他找到了以色列一个从事自然语言处理的编程团队，并签订了合同。他还用谷歌(Google)搜索找到了一位居住在泰国、在该领域有过重要著作的退休教授。达洛伊西奥说，他成了我们的科研主管，他现在在雅虎的森尼维尔办公室工作。

3. Rio - home to the 2016 Olympics and a host city for the 2014 football World Cup - beat Greece as the most searched-for destination.

4. 若原油供应严重中断，仍可能会推高油价，但潜在的供应过剩会降低这种可能性。Saxo Bank的大宗商品策略部门主管汉森(Ole Hansen)说，新兴市场的需求曾使得供应如此紧张，因而任何一次供应中断都造成了油价的大幅波动。

5. 办事处副局长卢华东说：“自治区已投资40亿元人民币（约合6亿美元），用于推动贫困地区特色的产业，去年重新安置了77000名贫困人口。”

6. 根据租金指导委员会(Rent Guidelines Board)的数据，在过去20年里，纽约市至少有13.3万个单元因这项规定而变成市价房。政策的支持者表示，如果这一趋势持续下去，租金管制政策会被进一步削弱，从而对市长保留保障房的努力构成阻碍。

应用

1. “Someone left for lunch and never came back.”

2. Overall, state-owned and private businesses invested an unprecedented $23bn in Europe — including Norway and Switzerland as well as the EU — in 2015 while investing $15bn in the US, according to a report by Baker & McKenzie, a lawfirm, and Rhodium Group, a consultancy.

3. Still, the optimistic view is that several roadblocks to recovery -- an over-indebted consumer, a moribund housing market and shellshocked banks -- are no longer holding back hiring. Barring an unforeseen shock to the economy, this could mean 2013 will be another year of slow but steady growth.[qh]

4. Forbes said that much of the decline in Trump's net worth is due to softness in the midtown Manhattan real estate market.

5. Christie’s biannual evening sale on Dec. 8 raised just 6.5 million pounds with fees, about $9.7 million, against a low estimate of 12.7 million. Nineteen of the 45 works, or 42 percent, failed to sell, including the two most highly valued lots — a 1582 watercolor study of a hare among plants by Hans Hoffmann, a pupil of Albrecht Dürer, and a fine 1770s Francesco Guardi view of the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, carrying low estimates of 4 million and 1.5 million respectively.

6. Despite the confusion, executive producer Ed Razek has commended the Chinese partners as “wonderful and enthusiastic hosts.”

旧版特色

1. 巴西政府动用数十亿资金建立新球场或扩建现有球场已触发众怒，并导致票价飞涨，这是路人皆知的事情。对此，一些球迷抱怨，曾经负担得起的现场体验变得更加昂贵，想要去诸如马拉卡纳等传奇球馆的热情也变淡了。

2. 在大多数市场中，这种增长将被认为是令人印象深刻的，但对中国来说，这代表着一种持续放缓。中国是全球第二大电影市场，在过去十年的大部分时间里，中国一直是好莱坞的增长源泉。

3. 第三季度摄影师的工作增长了大约22%。报告的作者将这一增长归因于雇佣者“最终理解了他们的登录页面的高质量图片的重要性”。通过雇用受过培训的有创造力的专业人员来扩大提升网站知名度也是这一排行榜上的一个常在的主题。