1. I agreed with Craig and Neil immediately that Ellen is the ideal host for this year’s show. We’re looking forward to an entertaining, engaging and fun show.

2. The price of gold has risen 15 per cent since the beginning of 2017 to trade at $1,334.78 a troy ounce.

3. 这笔交易令17岁的达洛伊西奥成为百万富翁。他在12岁时自学编写软件程序，他将一边继续学业，一边参与雅虎伦敦办事处的工作。

4. Dealers: Car dealers work toward reducing the paperwork involved in buying a car and the hours it takes to fill it out. That will give them more time to devote to upselling add-ons such as extended warranties, paint and fabric protection, and rust-proofing.

5. The report found that students majoring in art, agriculture and engineering were more willing to start businesses, while those majoring in history and science showed relatively low interest.

6. When things do go wrong, Mr Cook takes swift and merciless action. In late 2012, after the premature launch of Apple’s flawed Maps app, he dismissed Scott Forstall, who led the creation of iOS and was a close ally of Jobs, and John Browett, the former Dixons chief who had led Apple retail for less than a year. The actions sent a message that Mr Cook will not tolerate underperformance or internal politics.

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1. Han said on his social media that he only designed the original version of the mascot, which is the ink painting, but didn't participate in the 3D model design. "Of course we believe the ugly stuff has nothing to do with you," Web users said, responding to the respected artist.

2. Joss Whedon came up with the idea of Firefly while he was on a non-working vacation. He was reading a book called The Killer Angels which told the story of soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg. Whedon was attracted to the idea of the difficulty of the soldiers' everyday lives. He liked that the author focused on the mundane details of how people survived when they didn't have all of their needs conveniently met by modern technology and commercialism.

3. 在中国北方分析出的这种病毒与1957年以前传播的病毒相似，因此，1957年以前出生的人一般都有了抵抗力，而在那年之后出生的儿童和年轻人由于没有预先的免疫力而缺乏抵抗力。1978年这种病毒在世界各地传播开来，其中包括美国。这种病主要发生在孩子们身上，因此，这次流感没被看成是真正的大流行。1977-78年的流感季节，还没有及时地生产出控制病毒的疫苗，但是，1978-79年的流感疫苗就包含了这种病毒的疫苗。

4. For starters, breaches like that of Bitstamp and the much larger (valued at about $400 million at the time) 2011 hack of the exchange Mt. Gox are often misconstrued as security issues with the currency itself. But they are only signs of flaws in those particular exchanges and not a sign of an issue with the underlying technology. And it is the underlying technology behind bitcoin that most excites. As we wrote in the “Shape the Future” package of our January 2015 issue, most of the vocal enthusiasts so bullish on bitcoin—from big-name entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen to the developers and miners who spend their days refreshing the bitcoin Reddit page—are more interested in the applications that can be built on bitcoin’s “block chain,” the currency’s foundational backbone, than they are in bitcoin as a monetary system. The block chain allows the secure exchange of any form of value between two entities.

5. 交易员们纷纷退出：“不可持续趋势苟延残喘的时间可以远超多数人的预期，但时候一到，在周期的顶点，它们还是会结束。”他们分析了20多种周期，“差不多无一意外地预示未来数月、数年将发生地壳运动”。

6. Only asset management firms saw profits rise, up 16.7 per cent year-on-year to Rmb3.7bn.

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2. 一份产业报告显示，随着国内手机制造商加快创新，国产品牌手机仍占据国内手机出货量的主要份额。

3. The area is close to the city centre and the demolition contractors had to make sure that when they brought down the buildings they did not damage a light rail viaduct nearby or a shopping mall and electricity sub-station.