1. It is not hard to think of recent examples, from Hugo Chávez to Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin.

2. 愿你的新年光彩夺目，愿你的新年灿烂辉煌！佳节快乐！

3. As a measure of that fall, 10 works have sold at auction for more than $100 million since 2004, and all of them were made by modern or contemporary artists in the past 120 years. Older paintings have seen their value, in relative terms, level off or decline. The trend was plain to see in recent weeks, as London’s auction houses tried to find buyers for their latest tranche of old masters. As has been the case in recent years, there were few works by major names.

4. adj. 方便的，便利的

5. 单词elegant 联想记忆：

6. 最差运动员精神奖

应用

1. 江苏、山东、浙江、河南和四川的经济总量排名紧随其后，名次与2015年相同。

2. Thank you,

3. The Brexit trade uncertainty

4. Alfonso Cuaron won best director for the space odyssey 'Gravity,' a world-wide hit and critical favorite. The film will likely join 'American Hustle' and '12 Years a Slave' as an Oscar front-runner on Thursday, when Academy Awards nominations are announced. (The academy honors technical categories that the Globes don't.)

5. Brian Kendrella, president of New York-based Stack's Bowers Galleries, says the auction drew half a dozen bidders from six countries. The winning bidder Thursday was an individual collector from Asia who asked to remain anonymous.

6. 13. 《女孩帮》(Girlhood)，导演：瑟琳·席安玛(Céline Sciamma)。

旧版特色

1. 'Short Term 12' is one of those small indie features that stays with you in a big way. It's only 96 minutes long, a modest production set in a foster-care facility for troubled teens. Yet Destin Cretton's direction and Brie Larson's performance elevate the film to, well, one of the year's very best. Ms. Larson is almost a sure thing for not getting an Oscar-this year's competition is unusually fierce-but do catch up with her portrayal of Grace, a 20-something supervisor who is far from untroubled in her own life.

2. That's not even a sarcastic quip, it's the truth.

3. Best chance: If there are nine or 10 best picture nominees, it could grab a spot. Jordan Peele's screenplay looks certain to be recognized.