1. Puerto Ricans have been hit with dozens of new taxes in the past four years and increases in utility bills as former Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla aimed to generate more revenue for a government he said was running out of money. Despite those and other measures, the island’s government has defaulted on millions of dollars’ worth of bond payments and declared a state of emergency at several agencies.

2. 他们两个自称拥有着世界上最大的两个粉丝基础。但是周日晚上，在伦敦温布利SSE竞技场上举行的2017年欧洲音乐大奖中，Shawn Mendes夺得桂冠， Taylor Swift在她参选的五个奖项中纷纷落选。

3. Tesla:In an effort to blunt criticism about slow refueling times for battery-powered cars, Tesla TSLA -1.54% starts to roll out of a network of battery-swap stations. CEO Elon Musk must hope he can outdo Shai Agassi’s Better Place, which tried to build a whole company around battery-swaps before going bankrupt in 2013.

4. China denies any wrongdoing and says it is working to tackle problems of industrial overcapacity that have become more acute as its economy has slowed.

5. 一些科学家说，2014年成为创下气温纪录的一年，最值得注意的一点是该年度并没有发生强大的厄尔尼诺现象，一种由于太平洋将巨大的热量输送到大气层所造成的大尺度天气模式。

6. n. 压力，压强，压迫

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1. Celebrities throughout Hollywood have been doing just that over the last few weeks, especially when it comes to picking up some pumpkins at the local pumpkin patch.

2. Developer:Dontnod Entertainment, Square Enix

3. In the 1990s, Roth applied it to the market for allocating US student doctors to hospitals. He developed a new algorithm that was adopted by the National Resident Matching Program, which helps match resident doctors with the right hospitals.

4. 单词deputy 联想记忆：

5. 全球重量级的央行家和政府官员周六表示，对一些新兴经济体脆弱性的担忧以及近期金融市场的剧烈波动，应该不会挫伤人们对今年全球经济形势的“谨慎乐观”态度。

6. 科技、电信企业与一些快餐集团的品牌价值均出现增长，后者包括星巴克（BrandZ将它列入这一分类）和麦当劳(McDonald's)，麦当劳的品牌价值增长9%，尽管排名没有变化。

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1. suc下面，cumb躺－躺下去－屈从

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3. 上海社会科学院的专家周海旺告诉环球时报：“上海自2014以来就采取了一系列强硬措施，包括改造城中村和规范群租来控制人口增长。”