1. 这一2018年的大学综合排行榜包含了74个国家和地区的1250所大学，为有史以来数量最多的一次。去年的排行榜中只包含了65个国家的1000所大学。

2. The total amount of remittances, which is estimated to reach $450 billion in 2017, has risen by more than 50 percent in the past decade, IFAD said.

3. 从某些方面来看，《生活真奇怪》（Life Is Strange）与Dontnod Entertainment的科幻动作类游戏《勿忘我》（Remember Me）是两款截然不同的游戏，而从另一些方面来看，这两款章节式的冒险游戏十分类似。两款游戏都采用了虚幻3引擎（Unreal Engine 3），打造了美轮美奂的游戏世界供玩家探索。这两款游戏的名字也都有非常具有女性特征的主角。《生活真奇怪》的故事发生于美国俄勒冈州的阿卡迪亚湾，玩家将操纵青年马克斯o考菲尔德，开始一段包含有五个章节互动剧情的冒险。

4. 3.You Spend More Time Surfing the Web Than Doing Your Job

5. 10. Neuroscientists have discovered a whole new role for the brain's cerebellum. It's long been assumed that the cerebellum functions largely outside the realm of conscious awareness, coordinating basic physical activities like standing and breathing, but it could actually play a key role in shaping human behaviour.

6. 虽然引起了一定混乱，但维密秀的执行制作人艾德·拉泽克称赞中国合作方是“令人愉快又热情的东道主”。

应用

1. 贾斯汀比伯名列第五，因他为慈善组织Pencils of Promise和Believe Charity Drive做的贡献。

2. 7、人民币贬值

3. On our increasingly human-dominated planet we can still learn much from the lives of other species. The discovery this year that the Greenland shark lives for 400 years, making it the longest-living vertebrate, puts our hectic lives into perspective.

4. 11月，财新-Markit制造业采购经理人指数(PMI)从10月的51%降至50.8%，接近区分扩张和收缩的50%大关。此前，路透社(Reuters)对经济学家进行调查得出的预测中值曾预计，制造业PMI将降至50.9%。

5. China's consumer price inflation decelerated to just 1.3 per cent year-on-year last month, the slowest rate since May. On a month-to-month basis inflation fell by 0.3 per cent, the first negative reading since May.

6. 据国家质量监督检验检疫总局发言人韩云平称，去年该局对1013批此类商品进行了随机检查--包括玩具、纸尿布、服装和厨具在内的消费品，其中415批商品不合格，占全部抽样产品的40.9%。

旧版特色

1. At the time of the third presidential debate in October both candidates churlishly refused to greet or bid farewell to the other in the custom of the handshake.

2. The alternative analysis is that the shift we have seen over the past three years is the beginning of a long-term structural shift which will see energy prices materially lower in real terms in the next half century than in the last. Those who take this view believe, to put it very simply, that the likely growth in supply is stronger than the growth in demand.

3. 理查德沃特斯(Richard Waters)