1. People who are skeptical about this argument just need look at smartphones and personal computers, which have served as the technological driving force of the past century.

2. 中国官方采购经理人指数(PMI)显示，中国制造业活动出现了3月份以来的最慢扩张速度。与此同时，汇丰银行(HSBC)发布的正式PMI指数也出现了6个月内的最低读数。

3. 鉴于FIFA世界杯将于2018年在俄罗斯举办，届时的旅游成本会大大提高，所以选择在2017年去可谓是明智之举。

4. 据《新京报》报道，今年我国高校毕业生达765万人，创历史新高。此外，中职毕业生达435万人，应届毕业生总人数达1200万。

5. Economists say that both the residential and commercial markets in Hong Kong will be hurt by the same factors: slower growth in China, the depreciation of the renminbi, a crackdown on corruption on the mainland, and predictions that the US’s low interest-rate environment is due to end. However, government cooling measures introduced in 2012 to reduce speculative investment in Hong Kong property are an additional damper on the residential sector.

6. No. Football punditry is a mug’s game. Better to have the benefit of hindsight. There have been 20 previous World Cups. Of those, Brazil (five titles) and Germany (four), are regular contenders. Home advantage helps, with host nations winning the trophy six times. But next year’s festival of football is being held in Russia, which has the lowest-ranked team in the tournament.

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1. I do not see much evidence that radical “managerless” models such as “Holacracy” will catch on. But more companies will realise that if they constantly test innovative ways forward — as start-ups do — they will be more flexible and decisive than old-style bureaucracies and meritocracies.

2. 德肖维茨称，这个说法太模糊了，学校没有提出任何具体的要求。“当学校严肃处理学生时，却不说明他们的判断标准，我认为这是有问题的。”

3. As supporters kept streaming toward the Capitol building, one yelled out, “Today, a new Puerto Rico begins!” to the cheers of others, including those holding U.S. flags.

4. Making the cut for the first time, Gigi, 22, and Bella Hadid, 21, are ranked at number five and number nine respectively, with the former making $9.5 million and the younger sibling taking in $6 million.

5. Notably, the domain name for the top fake news story of the year is “abcnews.com.co.” In a November interview with The Verge, Professor Nicole A. Cooke of the University of Illinois’ School of Information Sciences cited the slight modification of familiar domains as a particularly dangerous and common tactic for fake news sites. They make the source look reputable at first glance. The man who operates abcnews.com.co told The Washington Post that he believes his websites were a key factor in the election of Donald Trump.

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1. At the last minute he opted instead for Teach First, the educational charity that has become the UK’s biggest recruiter of new graduates. Rather than parachuting into companies that needed restructuring, Mr Ravenscroft started teaching business and economics at Cardinal Pole School, which serves 11-19 year old boys and girls in Hackney, east London.

2. 自2005年首次发布这一排行榜以来的一项最重大计算方法变化是，FT现在收集校友毕业后首份工作的信息。这些数据与他们当前的工作（毕业三年后）的信息一起使用。这使得FT可以计算出他们自毕业以来的工资增长（一个新的排名指标）以及他们的职业发展。

3. China's expenditure on technology research and development rose 10.6% to 1.57 trillion yuan in 2016, the fastest annual growth since 2014, as the nation increases its investment in new driving forces to stabilize the economy.