1. The number of initial public offerings (IPO) and the amount of funds raised in the Chinese mainland's A-share market fell sharply year-on-year during the first half of 2016, according to statistics released by PwC last Monday.

2. 8. Sturgill Simpson “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music” (High Top Mountain) A throwback progressive hunkered down with a whip-smart band: country music has seen this before. But on his breakthrough second album, Sturgill Simpson made it a pliable trademark, grounded at every turn by his winning, seen-it-all baritone.

3. 10. Copyscape

4. 而相对来说，普遍推出的新限购政策，并未让其他许多最近几个月表现突出的城市受到影响，房价同比依然大幅上涨。

5. The End of the Road

6. Everyone was hugely cheered that global greenhouse gas emissions were flat between 2014 and 2016, even though recorded global growth was OK. The trouble is that this wasn’t the improvement in global economic efficiency everyone celebrated, but just a slowdown in northern China. As this part of the world recovered its economic mojo in 2017, carbon dioxide levels began to rise again.

应用

1. 波尔图基本与波特酒同义，并同样具有悠久的历史。该城市的历史城区和葡萄酒产区上杜罗已被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名录。

2. The book reflects growing anxiety in some quarters about the possible negative impact of automation on jobs, from manufacturing to professional services. The subtitle of its UK edition warns of “the threat of mass unemployment” and, in the US edition, foresees “a jobless future”.

3. 摩根士丹利首席执行长戈尔曼(James Gorman)将给该行所谓“降低风险”的策略来个大掉头。

4. This has given “edtech” start-ups, such as Silicon Valley-based Coursera and London-based FutureLearn, a foothold in the market. Expect them to continue this year, perhaps with a merger with a bricks-and-mortar higher education establishment.

5. 顺便说一句，伦敦的自行车租赁制度再简单不过了：走到任何一个租车点，刷卡付费就可以带走一辆自行车。当你使用完毕时，把车丢在附近的河里就行。这些自行车都是一次性的！

6. 最后，今年只有两所学校首次登上开放课程排行榜。上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院(Antai College of Economics and Management)直接排到第32名，而亚利桑那大学(University of Arizona)艾勒管理学院(Eller College of Management)在75所院校中排名第68位。

旧版特色

1. The government is keen to encourage lending to small and medium-sized borrowers, many of whom do not have credit histories. Analysts estimate the number of Chinese consumers who are financially active but without access to credit to be 500m.

2. But now she's using her storybook looks for good, dressing up as the character to entertain children and cheer-up cancer patients.

3. Why was I so confident that there would be no war in east Asia, either in the East China Sea or the South China Sea? The simple answer is that I know the Asian dynamic. While many Asian neighbours will make angry nationalist statements (and they have to do so to manage popular nationalist sentiments), they are also careful and pragmatic in their deeds.