1. Two weeks later, Mr. Bernheimer was among the dozens of long-established old master dealers attending the London evening sales. In the past, they would buy at these auctions to stock up for the Maastricht European Fine Art Fair in March in the Netherlands. But with sellers encouraging Sotheby’s and Christie’s to compete for their business with ever-higher valuations, and auctions now marketed to a shallow pool of wealthy buyers, there was conspicuously little trade bidding.

2. White people’s officially privileged status waned over the latter half of the 20th century with the demise of discriminatory practices in, say, university admissions. But rising wages, an expanding social safety net and new educational opportunities helped offset that. Most white adults were wealthier and more successful than their parents, and confident that their children would do better still.

3. illegal

4. n. 決定，決策

5. courage（n 勇氣）

6. 國家大學排行榜單數量從去年的38份上升到42份。新加入的榜單包括阿根廷、墨西哥、巴基斯坦和羅馬尼亞大學排行榜。

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1. "Moreover, most Chinese families only have one child, so many of us return to China because we want to stay close to our family and friends," said a student surnamed Su, who gave up his job in the UK and returned to take care of his mother in China.

2. 據周一發布的一份報告顯示，伴隨對教育和研發的投資正在不斷轉變為新的專利和許可，中國首次躋身世界最具創新力經濟體前25強。

3. Both Samsung and BlackBerry quickly put the kibosh on a report Wednesday afternoon that the two are engaged in takeover talks. But why would the world’s biggest smartphone company pay a rumored $7.5 billion for a Canadian tech company whose glory days are past? Answer: Its rich intellectual property portfolio—especially all its juicy security innovations.

4. The 500 brands come from 28 different countries, among which nearly half, 227, are from the US.

5. If you are a working-class white person and you fear that the new, cosmopolitan world will destroy or diminish an identity you cherish, you have no culturally acceptable way to articulate what you perceive as a crisis.

6. The Bloomberg soft commodities index has gained 21 per cent, compared with 24 per cent for industrial metals and 1.5 per cent for energy.

舊版特色

1. 課程安排：5個住校學習時間段，不住校時在線學習

2. The capital plans to move most of its municipal departments to the suburban district of Tongzhou in 2017, the Beijing Municipal Committee announced on Wednesday.

3. Frederickson說這樣做會讓你賺到一些錢，結交一些新朋友。也可以鍛煉一下你在失業期間可能會生疏的一些技能，比如：做事要快，多任務同時進行，迅速而出色地回答問題等。