1. The Beijing Tourism Development Commission noted that the country's battle with pollution is another obstacle cities face in attracting inbound tourists.

2. 你从来没有一醒来就能积极地工作

3. Consumer prices continued to rebound from an August dip, accelerating 0.2 percentage points to 2.1 per cent year on year, bang-on analysts’ median forecast.

4. "If all these train tickets were lined up, they would circle the earth 7 times," said Zhu Jiansheng, deputy director of the Institute of Computing Technologies with the Chinese Academy of Railway Sciences, where the ticketing system was developed.

5. adj. 不合法的，非法的

6. Annual prices had been rising as much as 9.6 per cent at the start of this year but they've cooled since then as the economy slows and many mid-sized Chinese cities suffer from a glut of apartments.

应用

1. Much joy to you in the up coming year. May the warmest wishes, happy thoughts and friendly greetings come at New Year and stay with you all the year through.

2. Adapted from an online novel Queen of No.11 Agent, the TV series is about the adventure of a female slave Chu Qiao and her romance with a prince Yan Xun.

3. Horowitz admitted that while doing so he has had to work carefully to preserve 007's characters and attitude as created by the spy novel’s first author Ian Fleming, who died in 1964.

4. 前述北京微信用户Robin Wang说，11年前他是一位忠实的QQ用户，但现在已经停用这款即时通讯服务，因为它显得不够专业。但自从在手机上下载微信之后，他发现多数同事和朋友都在上面，现在大家都通过语音邮件交流了。

5. Most Catholics (60 percent) and white non-evangelical Protestants (65 percent) say they believe disasters like hurricanes and floods are the result of climate change.

6. 我们的前路应有尽有，我们的前路一无所有……

旧版特色

1. CELEBRITY couple Ronald Cheng and Charlene Choi, who announced their separation earlier, are actually getting a divorce。　　明星情侣郑中基和蔡卓妍，早先宣布二

2. 在香港最繁忙地带之一湾仔(Wan Chai)的中心，坐落着一幢30多层的写字楼。今年早些时候，这幢大楼的易手使其成为世界最贵楼市香港的第二贵地产项目。

3. Australian and Spanish schools are doing well, however. Each country’s three representatives have risen up the ranking. Sydney’s Macquarie Graduate School of Management is Australia’s top placed institution at 49 and Spain’s IE Business School moved up four places to eighth, the first time since 2012 that the Madrid school is back in the top 10.