1. 勉强会。民主党将在11月中期选举中重新赢得对众议院的控制权。尽管他们要到2019年1月才能掌控众议院，但他们将马上开始为众议院司法委员会(House Judiciary)启动弹劾做文书方面的准备。特朗普将称此举为“政治迫害”。但在特朗普怪诞的总统任期又持续了一年之后，民主党将几乎不可避免地展开造势活动，誓要让特朗普承担责任。在此之前，无论罗伯特米勒(Robert Mueller)的调查发现了什么，都不可能让足够多的共和党人倒戈反对特朗普。

2. “‘降温’措施（是）影响香港（住宅）地产市场的最重要问题，”莱坊估价主管林浩文(Thomas Lam)说，“这正是过去两三年里所有大型机构的方案都在关注写字楼市场的原因。”

3. 泰国董里岛——董里岛是泰国东南部一个可被雷达侦测到的沉睡之省，游人可以在那里租长尾船，到岛屿之间穿行，还可以去看濒临灭绝的儒艮。

4. 这是第一首真正意义上的007系列电影主题曲（再说一次，詹姆斯·邦德前两部电影开场只使用了管弦乐），至今仍然是最好的一首。雪莉·巴赛得到了唱出自己心声的机会，她很乐意接下这个挑战。这首歌增添了《金手指》中反派人物奥里克的危险性（还有吸引力），但这仅仅只是雪莉·巴赛歌曲魔力的一部分。詹姆斯·邦德傲慢自大、英雄主义、诱惑人心、虚幻迷离，但谁在乎啊？这首歌就是为詹姆斯·邦德所作，歌词充满男子气概，歌手的演唱简直完美。

5. Yes, it happens. Print all application materials from home, the library, a print shop – anywhere besides your current company's office。

6. Although the average punctuality rate of the surveyed airports rose 7% year-on-year to 70.4% in 2016, the average delay time was 33 minutes.

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1. 《钢铁侠3》（Iron Man 3）凭借12亿美元的票房总收入成为目前2013年最卖座影片。不过这还不足以令其主演小罗伯特·唐尼（Robert Downey Jr.）摘下我们票房收入最高演员的桂冠。今年，绰号“巨石强森”的德韦恩·约翰逊（Dwayne Johnson）凭借更加努力的工作，击败了唐尼。

2. CCTV reported Friday morning that teams would still try to lift the vessel.

3. This year the list features nine heads of state who run nations with a combined GDP of $11.8 trillion — including the No. 1 Power Woman, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The 24 corporate CEOs control $893 billion in annual revenues, and 16 of the women here founded their own companies, including two of the three new billionaires to the list, Tory Burch and Spanx’s Sara Blakely. Speaking of, this year’s class has 14 billionaires valued in excess of $82 billion.

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5. 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.

6. Last week, Lu was appointed director of the office for Beijing's Leading Group of Promoting Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Integration Development, a move to accelerate Beijing's moves to coordinate with Tianjin and Hebei province.

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1. 夏季期间，中国股市泡沫破裂，数万亿美元的市值因而蒸发。尽管政府作了大量努力遏制股市暴跌，上海证券综合指数仍由7月12日的峰值一路下滑，到8月26日时下跌了43%。

2. Libby has posted the lyrics on her YouTube channel in the comments section, but here they are for you. There are plenty of lovely English expressions and British English slang that I’ve highlighted in bold for you. Can you guess the meaning? What does “OMG” stand for?

3. No. Having ended Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule — with a little help from the army — Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised free elections in 2018. That raises one problem: he could lose. He must at least pretend elections are fair because he needs donor money to help turn the economy around. That would mean electoral reforms, which risk a loss for his unpopular Zanu-PF. Even if Mr Mnangagwa were prepared to roll the electoral dice, it is not clear the army is. Having got their man in, Zimbabwe’s generals are unlikely to allow the public to kick him out.