1. People with Type A personalities are often high-achieving "workaholics". They push themselves with deadlines, and hate both delays and ambivalence. People with Type A personalities experience more job-related stress and less job satisfaction.

2. 数百所国内高校的2017届、2015届和2013届毕业生、共281万人参与了这项调查。

3. According to Oliver Cooke, a financial-services recruiter at Selby Jennings in New York, banks have been stressing what they call “internal mobility”, or redeploying staff from one department to another. If a bank facing sluggish conditions in debt trading, for example, can convert a trader to a risk analyst or a compliance officer, it can keep people interested — and it can save a bundle on severance.

4. A cemetery dating back roughly 1,700 yearshas been discovered along part of the Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes that once connected China to the Roman Empire.

5. 《发生什么了，西蒙妮小姐?》(What Happened, Miss Simone?)，导演：利兹·加布斯(Liz Garbus)。

6. 美国经济将会表现得更好就算世界上其他地区没能做到

应用

1. In early December, authorities announced that market circuit breakers would be introduced become effective from January 1 in an effort to limit the volatility seen during the savage, summer sell-off from June. The circuit breakers would see trading in shares, options and futures halted for 15 minutes if they fell by more than 5 per cent. On their first day of use, that first threshold was breached just after the return from the lunchbreak, prompting a 15-minute halt.

2. Sometimes bosses suck. But if your boss sucks all the time and takes advantage of your time, it's time to find a new job.

3. 美国和英国科学家基于数千份陆地和海洋的每日全球气温监测数据，得出上述发现。

4. 物理学界这一开拓性的发现已经点燃科学研究的星星之火，而他们的这项研究发展为前沿科技，也不过是时间早晚的事罢了，就像100年前我们无法想象今天的激光和电脑芯片那样，美国物理学会候选会长劳拉?H?格林在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示。

5. 在世界五大电脑制造商中，苹果公司是去年唯一一家出货量保持增长的公司，涨幅超过了6%；宏碁公司则是下跌幅度最大，下跌超过了18%。

6. It is the first time since 2001 that an athlete other than Mayweather Jnr or golfer Tiger Woods topped the earning league.

旧版特色

1. 尽管有少数人坚持这种说法，但绝大多数研究气候的科学家表示，地球正在经历一个长期变暖的趋势，这种趋势给人类带来深刻的威胁，而且几乎完全是由人类活动造成的。

2. There is a natural human tendency to idealize and whitewash days of yore, to cast them in the rosy glow of the mind’s eye.

3. 十年前，斯蒂尔作为一名成功的投资顾问在世界电信展（ITU World）上发言。世界电信展是联合国主导的一项活动，重点是科技在政府中的应用。同一周，加州经历了史上第一次州长罢免选举。斯蒂尔不敢相信，在如此重要的选举中，会出现这种不合时宜的平台故障（三年前才刚刚发生了臭名昭著的佛罗里达州总统选举罢免），所以她决定凭一己之力来解决这个问题。到目前为止，共有169个国家使用了Everyone Counts的电子投票平台，包括波斯尼亚黑塞哥利亚和奥斯卡奖评审委员会。