1. Mr. Lyons took a casting of Ms. Swinton’s mouth and designed teeth to fit. Those were clipped on over Ms. Swinton’s real teeth. For Minister Mason, he came up with a quirky look but didn’t quite want it to be comical. He was, however, interested in adding a little bling. “There’s a little bit of gold on the left-hand side,” he said. “We used real gold to make the filling of one tooth. We did it to put more character into the character.”

2. He then pressed all the buttons in the hope to get the elevator to work again, but to no avail. Sun then punched the "stop" button, to lock the elevator and secure it won't move.

3. Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;

4. Next year, crude from Libya--which experienced major problems exporting its oil in 2013 because of internal disputes--could flow again. Iraqi output also is set to increase. Even Iran, shut out of global markets for years, could return if an agreement is reached to relax sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear development. All this could add as much as two million to three million barrels a day of Middle East output.

5. 苹果（Apple）正面临着市值跳水的窘境，苹果股价从去年9月至今已下跌了35%。众多卖方分析师纷纷献计献策，现在甚至有人建议苹果推出廉价iPhone。摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）公司的凯蒂?休伯蒂对中国这一全球最大的智能手机市场进行了分析，并给大家算了一笔账。

6. Will businesses finally shed their caution?

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2. 去年，在报名参考的139万人中，只有93万人最终进入了考场。

3. 至于英格兰嘛？或许最好的事情应该便是在此次比赛中无人会期待有任何事情的发生，而对于英格兰而言，不从小组赛中淘汰掉便是一个褒奖了吧。

4. 在原油市场连续数年获得新兴市场需求的支撑之后，快速增加的原油供应很可能会在2014年拉低油价，油市形势将继续随着这种供需动态变化而发生改变。

5. In response to the incident, Jiedaibao made an announcement on its Sina Weibo on Dec. 1, stressing that the use of nude pictures as collateral for loans constitutes a private deal between users, which the company cannot regulate.

6. Spotify, the music streaming service, plans to list existing private shares directly on the New York Stock Exchange as soon as the fourth quarter rather than doing a formal IPO, while other large, well-known tech companies for now were seen as more likely prospects for 2018, bankers said.

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1. 两名美国人因研究医生与医院、学生与学校和人体器官与被移植者之间的有效匹配，昨天被授予诺贝尔经济学奖。

2. When contraband goods made from prohibited wildlife are seized in the United States, they find their way to the National Wildlife Property Repository near Denver. Pictures taken by Tristan Spinski from inside the facility — shoes made of leopard skin, a lamp made with zebra hooves, a sea turtle’s skull, an elephant foot stool — “testify to the human appetite for other species,” Rachel Nuwer wrote for The Times in July.

3. In my adolescent years on the foothills of Himalayas, I had a friend we all referred to as the "dreamy guy." He would spend his days enjoying the smallest of things – color-tagging butterflies, counting peaks on the horizon, making stories out of cloud formations. He was a happy soul, deeply receptive to life's beauties and easily excited. I knew this guy many years ago and I thought about him today as I sat down to write this piece for you, dear class of 2013.