1. Wang said the journal and authors had an unavoidable responsibility in the latest scandal, with the statement adding that Tumor Biology had retracted papers over similar concerns about the peer review process in 2015.

2. Skeptics of climate change have long argued that global warming stopped around 1998, when an unusually powerful El Ni?o produced the hottest year of the 20th century. Some politicians in Washington have seized on that claim to justify inaction on emissions.

3. 对于该行业规模有多大，众说纷纭，但高盛(Goldman Sachs)的数据表明，在2012至2014年期间，该行业的贷款规模从60亿元人民币增长至830亿元。

4. Regulators in other countries will draw lessons from the success or failure of the Japanese model.

5. 多年来，人们一直预测这个分散的行业将会整合，近期的确出现了大规模合并。但毫无疑问，伦敦金融城的律师事务所正在承受越来越大的价格压力。

6. 坦率地讲，这种行为意味着你还只是一个小女孩，还算不上女人。

应用

1. The government needs to work to emancipate and develop productive forces, bring out the initiative for the people and deliver greater benefits to the general public, the essence of governance is to always act in the overall interests of the whole country rather than just acting in one scenario departmental interests. The essence of our government is to always respond to the people’s call.

2. 伦敦阿格纽艺术品交易所(Agnew’s)的主管安东尼·克赖顿-斯图尔特(Anthony Crichton-Stuart)说：“如果没有意识到我们处在非常危急的关头，那就太天真了。人们的偏好出现了重大转变。但是如果拍卖会上出现一幅18世纪前绘画大师的佳作，而且价位合理，人们还是会感到兴奋。”

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4. 自从2010年开通运营以来，12306票务系统已多次升级以修复漏洞，并在春运期间提供更好的服务。

5. Actuaries put a financial value on risk for instance, the chances of a hurricane destroying a beachfront home or the long-term liabilities of a pension system. In a world awash with risks of the natural and manmade variety, the profession is booming, says Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast.com. In addition, he says, 'there's a severe shortage of actuaries, ' so wages are rising. (The median salary for actuaries in 2010 was $87, 650, according to the Labor Department.)

6. “欧洲工商管理学院极大地充实了我们的跨文化体验，”一位来自瑞士的校友在接受调查时表示，“在这里学习全球文化好于其他任何地方。”

旧版特色

1. Property prices in Hong Kong have surged over the past decade, but hit a peak in September when jitters about China’s economy took hold.

2. However the prolonged period of contraction fits with the overall pattern of the slowing Chinese economy.

3. 我只是忍不住希望，随着《广告狂人》的终结，一个时尚阶段也能终结，在这个阶段，设计师们被困于过去的时代，几乎窒息——至少是困在20世纪60年代（不要忘了，60年代初与50年代末非常相似）至70年代初。