1. Tsinghua University and Peking University are ranked in 14th and 17th place respectively -- the same positions they held in last year's rankings.

2. [d?eil]

3. Net interest margins — the difference between interest paid on deposits and interest gained from loans — suffered as China lifted its remaining controls on the interest rates paid on deposits. The average margin declined by about 46 basis points to 2.54 per cent in 2015.

4. Europe fell into a debt crisis. Japan faced a natural disaster. Emerging markets, once the bright spots on the global landscape, lost their glow. Political crises from Italy to Egypt to Thailand raised the prospect of another round of global unrest.

5. 就国内而言，日益活跃的中产阶层正形成压力，要求得到问责制度更健全的治理。愈演愈烈的不平等滋生了一种不公正感；两亿农民工仍然受到二等公民的待遇，腐败也有增无减。对付这些问题的任务十分紧迫，但中国的经济成就助长了一种无端的自信。于是，在阿拉伯之春的刺激下，中国的体制采取激进举措，压制可能引发政治敏感运动的任何社会不满。

6. 皮克斯动画公司CEO乔布斯（此时乔布斯已重返苹果公司）在苹果展销会上作演讲，1997年，1月7日

应用

1. About now, new CEO Gorman is probably learning that the meager profits of a retail brokerage can't pay for all those monster Wall Street bonuses. Expect Gorman to decide that Morgan Stanley should be a lot more like trader Goldman Sachs, after all.

2. departure

3. "Twenty Two" featuring the tales of 22 comfort women became the first Chinese documentary to surpass 100 million yuan at the box office.

4. BuzzFeed News defined “fake news” as news that was verifiably “100 percent false” and drawn from a list of 96 websites purposely created to disseminate false information.

5. n. 冰箱

6. “LBS has a great student body, very diverse in terms of nationality, competitive and intelligent,” commented one American graduate from the class of 2012. “It also gave me the opportunity to study in the US [on exchange] without having to do a purely US-focused American MBA.”

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1. 单词calendar 联想记忆：

2. Aspiring young leaders already place more emphasis on using their influence, rather than trying to exert power through the embedded authority of their position or their assigned title. Many are already gaining leadership experience, not through promotion at established institutions but by running bottom-up movements and voluntary groups, or by shaping their own start-ups.

3. 王春法说，在出版前应加强审查和评估。