1. “微博等新媒体让每个人都拥有了发言平台,如果你不能直面批评,与百姓合作,是不能做好工作的。”

2. Late last year, the World Health Organization declared that Zika virus was no longer a global emergency. But the disease’s effects on babies who may live for decades are only beginning to be understood. In northeastern Brazil, where links between the virus and birth defects like microcephaly were first detected, families struggle to give the best lives possible to stricken babies. Researchers hope to find clues about the virus’s effects on the fetus by studying pairs of twins in Brazil in which one was born with birth defects and the other was not.

3. 根据这份由艾瑞咨询集团与新浪微博联合发布的报告表示，由新浪微博和电信巨头华为联合主办的2016超级红人节高峰论坛在上海举行。

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5. TAXES: Approximately $16,866 in 2014

6. 在几代人之中，工薪阶层的白人受到双重赐福：他们既拥有种族所带来的特权地位，也受惠于经济的繁荣发展。

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1. 以下是搜索引擎百度公布的在2015年里最受网友关注的十大新闻事件：

2. iPhone推出一款更大屏幕iPhone手机的迫切性部分来自于亚洲市场——三星平板手机声势浩大地占领了这个市场。假设苹果和中国移动签订的协议包括上述即将推出的新品，那么新款iPhone推出时通常会出现的价格调整将使iPhone 5C对中国市场而言更为便宜且更具吸引力。而这对5C来说也是正确的方向——目前为止，苹果公司对该款产品的销售额颇为失望。或许关于5C重要的一点是，它不是5S，所以将来它可以在不对苹果旗舰产品价格造成压力的情况下进行打折。

3. v. 扩充，延伸，伸展，扩展

4. Lufax is the largest, a subsidiary of China’s Ping An Insurance, which is Lufax’s largest shareholder.

5. So many of us habitually gossip, whine or complain. But do any of these too often and your job could be on the line. These all lead to the same end result: you become a headache for your manager. Your boss is likely responsible for ensuring her teams are contributing to positive morale and anyone on the team who is counterproductive to that reflects poorly on her. Negative employees are often referred to as 'cancer' by upper management for good reason: they will eventually be cut out. A good approach if you have a complaint is to speak with your manager directly, in private. Never drum up your co-workers for support first.

6. n. 改革，改良

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1. China's National Bureau of Statistics said its property prices index for November showed that new home prices fell 3.7 per cent from a year ago, the third straight annual decline following readings of -2.6 per cent in October and -1.3 per cent in September.

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3. The swap is due largely to the major security breach at software company Adobe in October which affected tens of millions of users.