1. Ellen is talented, wonderfully spontaneous, and knows how to entertain a worldwide audience. She’s a big fan of the Oscars; we’re huge fans of hers. It’s a perfect match.

2. 声明表示，安诺杰在会谈中承诺将加强管理，增强与中国科协的合作，提升科学公信力。他强调，施普林格自然集团并非针对中国，他们也撤销过其他国家专家的论文。

3. 韩云平表示，去年全国的质量监督部门共提交了36000起和违反质量标准有关的案件，涉及金额达23亿人民币（约合3.33亿美元）的货物。

4. 《速度与激情6》帮助其另外两位男演员在我们榜单中获得较高的排名：范·迪塞尔（Vin Diesel）和已故的保罗·沃克（Paul Walker）。迪塞尔以8.87亿美元位居我们榜单第四。《速度与激情6》在全球斩获7.89亿美元的票房。仅仅几个月之前，他出演的《星际传奇3》（Riddick）在各大影院上映，仅收入9,800万美元票房，不过，这也足以使迪塞尔的排名领先于他的搭档沃克。

5. A New York City restaurant is taking a stab at creating the most decadent pizza on the market with a pie topped in gold flakes, foie gras and even truffles.

6. n. 典礼，仪式，礼节，礼仪

应用

1. 4.Avoid micromanaging

2. “…was caught in a big lie on her resume during the meeting.”

3. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler are case studies of demagogues turned into despots.

4. The Chinese comedy Never Say Die has brought in an impressive $326 million worldwide to date.

5. In a sign that civil service jobs may be losing their appeal, a report issued by recruitment website Zhaopin in late March said more than 10,000 public sector employees, including civil servants and staff members at public institutions, had submitted their resumes to potential employers through the site in just two months. The number was 34 percent higher during the same period last year, the report said.

6. It was the second weekend in a row that Venezuela's socialist government opened the long-closed border with Colombia and by 6 a.m. Sunday a line of would-be shoppers snaked through the entire town of San Antonio del Tachira. Some had traveled in chartered buses from cities 10 hours away.

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1. This has given “edtech” start-ups, such as Silicon Valley-based Coursera and London-based FutureLearn, a foothold in the market. Expect them to continue this year, perhaps with a merger with a bricks-and-mortar higher education establishment.

2. The US remains home to the biggest brands and the value of its top 10 increased by 10 per cent to $1.3tn in 2016. The top 10 UK brands, headed by Vodafone, lost 8 per cent of their value. Those in continental Europe — led by Germany’s SAP software group — rose 5 per cent. Finally, the $360bn value of Asia’s top 10 brands, headed by Tencent, China Mobile and Alibaba, was only 10 per cent lower than the value of the top 10 in continental Europe and the UK combined.

3. Many technicians think that during the course of this century computerized robots might compete and win against humans.