1. trademark

2. yacht

3. No. Wall Street strategists’ predicting that the US government’s 10-year borrowing costs will climb above the 3 per cent mark in the coming year is as much a staple of the Christmas period as awkward office parties. This year the forecasts look more likely to be fulfilled, given a withdrawal of quantitative easing and the US tax cut. However, the seismic, secular forces pinning down both inflation and long-term bond yields remain in place and are still underestimated. The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at least three times in 2018, but the 10-year yield will not breach 3 per cent.

4. 6.不是故事的结局不够好，而是我们对故事要求太多。

5. While Switzerland’s University of St Gallen retains the top spot, French and British business schools, with 24 and 18 programmes respectively, are the backbone of the 2017 FT ranking of 95 programmes around the world. More than half of UK schools move up the ranking, compared with one in France. A third of British schools rise five places, in contrast to the two-thirds of French schools that drop five or more places.

6. 第一种是把亚洲视作一个被证明为排斥快速发展的市场，在起飞之前需要重大结构和监管改变。第二种是看到突然出现上行惊喜的可能性。

应用

1. 此外，《美国新闻与世界报道》还提供了学科排行榜，包括计算机科学、经济学和商科以及工程学等热门学科。

2. The banking industry has been experiencing a low profit growth period and will be for a long time, the National Business Daily reported, citing an expert. He said the banks' yearly profits growth reached 35 to 40 per cent in the past dozen years, but now the growth had slowed to less than 1 per cent, with some banks even recording a loss.

3. Chinese people are intelligent and hardworking and they have an inexhaustible drive for pursuing a better life for themselves. The government needs to create the enabling environment for our people to fully use their talent and initiative.

4. 过去一年中，亚利桑那州最大的赢家是建筑和休闲/酒店行业，这两个行业共增加了超过1万个就业机会。其他快速增长的行业包括商业服务、金融活动、教育和医疗服务。

5. While you're studying, pay attention to the material you know will be on a test and write a quick practice question. Start a new document on your laptop and add questions as you think of them.

6. 该榜单囊括了2015年度全球最具影响力、最智慧性感、人气最高、事业最为成功的美丽女性。

旧版特色

1. Andrew Hill is management editor

2. 2002年，一名4岁的小男孩患有耳聋，但他不愿意戴助听器，因为超级英雄们都不戴。之后，漫威（Marvel）创作了一个戴着助听器的蓝耳侠（Blue Ear）。

3. Snap, however, has sunk to about $15 after initially rallying from its IPO price of $17 in March, damping some expectation of further activity involving so-called decacorns, tech companies that have achieved valuations of $10bn or more through private funding.