刘备和孙权联合起来，巧用火攻，战胜了强大的曹操军队。

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支付宝 (Alipay)是中国最大的第三方在线支付平台，由 阿里巴巴集团 (Alibaba Group)于2004年创建。截至2012年底，支付宝拥有用户超过7亿。用户可利用这一平台支付各种费用，诸如网购、电话费、学费等等。以网购为例，买家先将钱存到支付宝账户，收到商品后，再通过支付宝将钱转给卖家。支付宝为其用户提供了“简单、安全、快速”的在线支付方式，保护了买卖双方的利益。

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中国的教育体制分为三个阶段：基础教育、高等教育和成人教育。基础教育包括 学前教育 (pre-schooleducation)、小学和中学。高等教育由职业专科学校、学院和大学组成。1986年，中国开始实行从小学到初中的 九年制义务教育 (nine-year compulsory education)政策。中国政府把教育放在优先发展的战略地位，提出了“科教兴国”的战略方针。在政府和人民的共同努力下，中国的教育取得了历史性的成就。

无人便利店(unattended convenience stores)是新零售中的一种，是零售的延伸。有人还是无人不是无人便利店的核心，因为只要是需要陈列商品，完全没有工作人员的协助，从短期来看，是不太现实的。对消费者来说，无人便利店最首要的条件是便利，能保证消费者获得良好的购物体验。加强个人诚信体系建设，加大违约成本(breach cost)是保证无人便利店健康发展的基础。虽然每间便利店都无人值守，但是顾客都可以通过视频获得人工服务。

When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong. Instead, the research finds, the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to examine carefully a lot of information, often to its long-term benefit. Some brains do deteriorate with age. But for most aging adults, researchers say, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention that makes it more difficult to get hold of just one fact. Although that can be frustrating, it is often useful. "It may be that distractibility is not, in fact, a bad thing" said Shelley E Carson, a psychology researcher at Harvard "It may increase the amount of information available to the conscious mind" For example, in studies where subjects are asked to read passages that are interrupted with unexpected words or phrases, adults 60 and older work much more slowly than college students. Although the students plow through the texts at a consistent speed regardless of what the out-of-place words mean, older people slow down even more when the words are related to the topic at hand. That indicates that they are not just stumbling (结结巴巴地念) over the extra information, but are taking it in and processing it. When both groups were later asked questions for which the out-of-place words might be answers, the older adults responded much better than the students. "For the young people, it's as if the distraction never happened," said a researcher of the review, Lynn Hasher, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. "But for older adults, because they've retained all this extra data, they're now suddenly the better problem solvers. They can transfer the information they've soaked up from one situation to another." Such tendencies can yield big advantages in the real world, where it is not always clear what information is important, or will become important. For instance, a seemingly irrelevant point or suggestion in a memo can take on new meaning if the original plan changes.

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英语的分数由150分减为100分，而语文由150分增至180分。

Could the reason for the world's economic misfortunes all come down to finger length? Although certainly an oversimplification of our【C1】______ troubles, scientists have shown that financial traders who lose the biggest dollars are more【C2】______ to have shorter ring fingers than index fingers. Former Wall Street trader and scientist John Coates of the University of Cambridge wondered whether finger ratio really correlated with trader success. His team【C3】______ that traders with the lowest index-to-ring-finger ratios made the most money over a 20-month period, even when the researchers controlled for years of experience. They averaged the【C4】______ of $1,232,590, nearly six times more than that of men with【C5】______ ratios. "I almost fell off my chair," says Coates. "I, could not believe what I was seeing." Tim Harford, a columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World, calls the study "fascinating." He says he's glad to see that economists have【C6】______ looking at financial markets in terms of natural【C7】______ instead of looking at them in terms of rational people making rational decisions. Coates,【C8】______ , says it is important to note that this study【C9】______ on only one type of trading, and increased confidence and quick reactions may in fact be an obstacle to those trading over long periods of time, like investors at hedge funds and investment banks. "Each【C10】______ of trading may require a different set of traits," he says.A) focuses E) strengthens I) high M) moreoverB) started F) likely J) conventional N) selectionC) however G) equivalent K) found O) currentD) figure H) style L) studied

这些石窟刻于距离敦煌东南方向25公里处鸣沙山的悬崖上。

同仁堂创建于1669年，其药品以优良的传统工艺和显著的疗效享誉海内外。

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中国的铁路建设始于清朝(the Qing Dynasty)末年。自新中国成立后，中国的铁路得到了飞速发展。目前中国拥有仅次于美国和俄罗斯的全球第三大铁路网。在中国，铁路是国家重要的基础设施(infrastructure)、大众化的交通工具。每逢寒暑假、节假日，总会出现“一票难求”的现象。据报道，中国将优先发展西部地区，特别是贫困地区的铁路，引导当地人民走向致富之路。

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明清两朝(the Ming and Qing Dynasties)是中国小说的繁荣时期。从思想和主题方面来说，这个时代的小说包含了传统文化的精神，充分显示出其文学价值和社会作用。在文学史上，明清小说具有与唐诗、宋词、元曲(Tang Shi，Song Ci and Yuan Qu)一样重要的地位。中国文学四大名著(Four Great Works of Litera-ture)都是明清时期的代表作品。这些享有世界声誉的作品都已经被改编成影视剧，受到中外观众的喜爱。

聘金 (endowment)是中国传统习俗的一部分。通常， 新郎 (bridegroom)需要给新娘家一笔钱作为聘礼来定下婚礼。但是近几年来其标准不断上升，致使大多数家庭都很难达到。快速上涨的生活成本是聘金增加的主要原因。对于大多数年轻人来说，结婚意味着独立组建家庭。然而物价的不断上涨使这一切变得越来越困难。因此，许多新婚夫妇都只能向父母求助。