1. 支出提升三成是由更专业的创新药品，更多患者支付得起药品以及放宽专利期限这些因素驱动的。

2. 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.

3. 本周四公布的一项最新调查显示，近四成美国居民表示，最近发生的桑迪飓风等自然灾害的严重性正是世界末日即将到来的证据，就像《圣经》中预言的那样。而超过六成的受访者认为这是气候变化所致。

4. 独裁者利用前者作为镇压的借口，利用后者要求绝对服从。

5. 1=somewhat false

6. 1. Love what you do.

应用

1. severe

2. 冷空气是被一个名为高空急流的气流循环带到美国本土的内部，这让北极的冷空气南下。但是，一个抵消这种冷空气的怪现象，让异常温暖的热带空气停留在西部地区、阿拉斯加大部分地区以及北极大部分地区的上空。

3. 9. Firefighter

4. mortality

5. So what forces will shape the questions asked next year? It depends on who (and where) you are. While buyers should brace for another year of high-stakes bidding wars, residents of the city’s far-flung neighborhoods (I’m talking about you, Grand Concourse) should be ready for an onslaught of prospective residents seeking bargains — bargains, that is, relative to the gilded ZIP codes that are out of the reach of most mortals.

6. No. Football punditry is a mug’s game. Better to have the benefit of hindsight. There have been 20 previous World Cups. Of those, Brazil (five titles) and Germany (four), are regular contenders. Home advantage helps, with host nations winning the trophy six times. But next year’s festival of football is being held in Russia, which has the lowest-ranked team in the tournament.

旧版特色

1. 女士们，我们都接到这样的警告，你将会如何回复呢？

2. Meanwhile, the University of Bradford School of Management and the University of Edinburgh Business School each climb 16 places, to 42nd and 55th, respectively. Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge rises 15 places to 14th.

3. You might think that our love of lists could be pinned on the Ten Commandments, but Umberto Eco says otherwise. “The list is the origin of the culture,” he once said on a subject he knows well, having written a book titled “The Infinity of Lists.” And culture wants “to make infinity comprehensible” and “to create order — not always, but often,” hence Homer’s catalogs in “The Iliad” and the roll call of never-completed household chores on my fridge. “We like lists because we don’t want to die,” Mr. Eco also said, which is the best explanation of the listicle that I’ve yet read.