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标题：China’s Hainan Free Trade Port heralds new era of openness
Port’s relaunch to pilot trade reforms for potential national rollout while easing foreign access to China’s markets

正文：An iPhone that costs about $100 less might not sound like a trade policy story, but in China’s Hainan Island, it is. As global trade faces rising tariffs and growing protectionism, China is moving in the opposite direction by opening one of its doors wider. That door is Hainan, a tropical island now being positioned as China’s most ambitious experiment in free trade and economic openness. On Decem...

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标题：Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela

Opposition leader María Corina Machado slipped through 10 military checkpoints to reach a fishing boat bound for Curaçao and a private jet headed to Norway.

正文：Wearing a wig and a disguise, María Corina Machado began her escape from Venezuela on Monday afternoon. The Venezuelan opposition leader sought to reach Norway by Wednesday to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for challenging the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. First, she had to travel from the Caracas suburb where she’d hidden for a year to a coa...

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标题：T’s flawed plan to get China  hooked on Nvidia chips

The president is tearing up America’s export-control policy

正文：In the race to dominate artificial intelligence (ai), China is neck and neck with America in software. Chinese models now routinely outperform many American ones on popular benchmarks. But on hardware, a wide gap remains. America’s chipmakers, led by Nvidia, are far ahead.

知识点：dominate v. /ˈdɒmɪneɪt/ 
To have a commanding influence on; exercise control over. 
主导，支配
-One company dominates the market. 
一家公司主导了市场。
-She tends to dominate every conversation.
她...

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标题：Rob Reiner and the Plight of the Nepo Baby
Children of privilege still have to prove themselves, as he did—and if they fail, it’s all the more painful.

正文：To put a gruesome murder in terms of an overworked phrase beloved of supposedly media-savvy people: A Hollywood nepo baby and his wife are dead, and their own nepo baby is under arrest in connection with the killings. The story of Rob Reiner, his wife, Michele, and their son Nick ought to make people think again about what nepo babies are, and aren’t. The phrase carries a derisive jeer...

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标题：From social media to porn, age checks are spreading across the web

Australia is not the only country introducing stricter controls

正文：“This reform will change lives,” proclaimed Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, as the country banned under-16s from having social-media accounts starting December 10th. Many teenagers agreed—though perhaps not in the way the government meant. “I will be completely alone for the next 3 years until I am 16,” posted a user on Reddit, one of the proscribed social networks, noting that their music playlists on YouTube would also be lost.

知识点：proclaim /prəˈ...

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标题：Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China

正文：China’s public-health system is both world-class and woeful. The best hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai have top-notch doctors, the latest drugs and gleaming
equipment. But such places make up only around 10% of China’s medical 
institutions. In the country’s 33,000-odd township-level health centres, only half of 
general practitioners (GPs) even have university degrees. In total China spends around 
7% of its GDP on health (for comparison Britain shells out around 11%).

知识点：woeful adj. /ˈwəʊfʊl/
very bad or disappointing 糟糕的；令人失望的

• The school’s facilities we...

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标题：

The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach

A Hanukkah massacre of  Australian Jews

正文： It’s long past time to stop saying “Anti-Semitic violence has no place in our society." Outrage upon outrage confirms that anti-Semitic violence has a large and expanding place in Western societies—that it is supported by many, that it is tolerated by many more, and that it is often appeased or even enabled by governments fearful of confronting large and militant factions within their populations.

知识点：anti-Semitic adj. /ˌænti səˈmɪtɪk/

showing or feeling prejudice or hostility toward Jewish people. 反犹太主义的

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标题：Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus.

It is a problem not for the rest of the world, but for China.

正文：Last year the gdp of only 19 countries exceeded $1trn. That puts the latest news from China’s customs administration into stark context. On December 8th it reported that the country’s net exports of goods in the first 11 months of the year had already exceeded $1trn, more than any previous surplus. Even as America whacked tariffs on China, its enterprising manufacturers have expanded into alternative markets and discovered roundabout routes past America’s trade ba...

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标题：Colleges Are Preparing to SelfLobotomize.

The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.

正文：Colleges are now scrambling to do too much. Over the summer, Ohio State University announced a new initiative promising to “embed AI education into the core of every undergraduate curriculum, equipping students with the ability to not only use AI tools, but to understand, question and innovate with them—no matter their major.” Administrators understandably want to “future proof” their graduates at a time when the workforce is rapidly t...

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标题：Which economy did best in 2025? Our annual ranking returns.

正文：It could have been a lot worse. In April, as President Donald Trump started his trade war, investors and many economists braced for a steep global recession. In the end, global gdp will probably grow by around 3% this year, the same as last. Unemployment remains low almost everywhere. Stockmarkets have logged another year of respectable gains. Only inflation is really a worry. Across the oecd it remains above central banks’ 2% targets.

知识点：brace for /breɪs fɔː(r)/ (phrasal verb)

To prepare oneself mentally or physically for some...

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标题：How AI is rewiring childhood

正文：CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS may contain more surprises than usual this year, as children open presents that can talk back. Toymakers in China have declared 2025 the year of artificial intelligence (AI) and are producing robots and teddies that can teach, play and tell stories. Older children, meanwhile, are glued to viral AI videos and AI-enhanced games. At school, many are being taught with materials created with tools like ChatGPT. Some are even learning alongside chatbot-tutors.

知识点：teddy n. /ˈtedi/
a soft toy in the shape of a bear 泰迪熊；毛绒玩具熊
e.g. The little girl hugged her teddy tightly. 小女孩紧...

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标题：The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math
A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions.

正文：Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at a leading public university ranked highly nationally by a major college rating organization can’t do either, according to a new analysis from the school. Read, and weep for the future of America.

知识点：elementary /ˌelɪˈmentri/ (adjective)
Relating to the basic elements or principles of something; primary
基本的；基础的；初级的
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标题：Zootopia 2 bucks trend for Hollywood releases in China as it breaks records for foreign animation.

Now China’s highest-grossing foreign animation, the films, known as Zootropolis in some countries, comes amid a boom for domestic productions.

正文：A comedy about animal cops investigating a reptilian mystery has become the highest-grossing foreign animated film ever in China, bucking the trend of declining interest in overseas productions that has resulted in Hollywood films struggling in the Chinese box office. Zootopia 2 (called Zootropolis 2 in some European countries), a hotly anticipated and widely marketed sequel to 2016’s Zootopia, was released in...

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标题：Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO

正文：Netflix has triumphed in the bidding war for Warner Bros. and HBO, announcing a deal that could combine two of the three biggest streamers with one of the largest traditional movie and television studios. If the deal goes through, it will fundamentally reshape Hollywood at a precarious time for the entertainment business. It would give Netflix control of some of the industry's most valuable intellectual property, including Batman, Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and would give a company that historically had very little interest in movie theaters oversight of the studio that put mo...

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标题：College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I.

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decisionmaking” is now the second-mostpopular undergraduate major.

正文：Artificial intelligence is the hot new college major. This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa. At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new A.I. major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone “department of A.I. and society,” which is offering new interdiscipli...

笔记：conform to 顺从，顺应
词组的意思是 to behave and think in the same way as most other people in a group or society.
Though some might want marriage or children, the risks of having to conform to traditional gender roles outweigh any benefits. 
尽管有些人可能想要结婚或生孩子，但遵守传统性别角色的风险大于任何好处。

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笔记：go-to adj. 首选的，必去的
这是个口语中很常见的表达，表示一定会去的，第一时间能想到的，比如说学英语，我必去的平台就是早安英文，就可以用到这个词组 Morning English is my go-to choice.

It is the go-to brand for the type of high-school girls who spend hours on TikTok.
对于那些在 TikTok 上花费数小时的高中女生来说，这是一个首选品牌。

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笔记：shake-up n. 改变，重组
shake 表示摇晃，那么 shake up 剧烈的摇晃之后，事物都要重组，调整，所以 shake-up 就当一个名词，meaning an important change or series of changes.
It’s part of a larger New York City nightlife shake-up. 
这是纽约市夜生活大变革的一部分。

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笔记：exorbitant /ɪɡˈzɔːrbətənt/ adj. 天价的，贵得离谱的
东西特别贵，除了用 extremely expensive，还可以用这个比较正式的形容词，比如说租金过高就是 exorbitant rent，那天价药就可以说 exorbitant medicine.
That seaside hotel charges exorbitant prices during the summer holidays.那家海滨旅馆在暑假漫天要价。

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标题：Single Retirees Face New Challenges. Here Are Ways to Cope.
The population of seniors living alone is rising amid mounting concerns about their nest eggs, Social Security, and Medicaid. Here’s how they’re getting by.

正文：Challenges are mounting for retirees as the government safety net is in flux and costs mount for health services and long-term care. It can be even tougher for single retirees, whether it’s managing household finances, dealing with health issues, or warding off loneliness—a risk factor for physical and mental health.

知识点：safety net /ˈseɪfti net/ (noun)
(noun) A system or arrangeme...

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标题：POTUS Fell for the White House Janitor: 72 Hours to Go Viral, 72 Hours to Get Debunked
Drama in the World of Vertical Drama, is This the New Way to Hype a Show?

正文：Something curious has been circulating during the past two days. Friends who know that I spend my days developing vertical dramas all messaged me at once: Have you seen that POTUS mini-series story?

知识点：curious adj. /ˈkjʊriəs/
eager to know or learn something. 好奇的
e.g. The child was curious about how the engine worked. 那个孩子对发动机的工作原理很好奇。

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标题：Xiaomi Turns Worst China Tech Stock on Smartphone, EV Doubts

正文：Xiaomi Corp. has gone from market darling to the worst-performing Chinese technology stock in just a few short months, and a quick comeback looks challenging amid headwinds in the smartphone and electric vehicle markets.

知识点：darling n. /ˈdɑːlɪŋ/
a person or thing that is very popular or highly regarded. 宠儿；受欢迎的人（或事物）
e.g. The new indie band quickly became the darling of the music critics. 这支新独立乐队迅速成为了乐评人的宠儿。

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标题：How did Hong Kong’s massive housing estate fire turn so deadly?

正文：. A deadly inferno has torn through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 44 people with more than 270 others still missing, in what is shaping up to be the city’s worst disaster in decades. Firefighters were still trying to get parts of the fire under control on Thursday morning with rescue officials saying extremely high temperatures inside the buildings were hampering their ability to reach residents they knew to be trapped.

知识点：inferno n. /ɪnˈfɜːrnoʊ/
a large and uncontrollable fire that causes great destruction...

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标题：China’s growing global fan club
Our new poll shows global opinion is swinging its way

正文：CHINA APPEARS “increasingly cool,” declared Lin Jian, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, earlier this year. To make his case he pointed to consumer-product sensations and cutting-edge technology. After all, this year China has celebrated the success of the “ugly-cute” Labubu toy and DeepSeek, and experimented with flying cars.

知识点：spokesperson /ˈspəʊkspɜːsən/ (noun)
A person who speaks on behalf of a group, organization, or company
发言人，代表某团体、组织或公司发言的人
• The company’s spokesperson issued a statement about the product recall.公司发言人就产品召回事宜发表了声明。

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标题：China has too many university grads and too few jobs for them
It wants to push youngsters towards vocational colleges instead

正文：ON THE BANKS of the Fuchun river in Zhejiang, an eastern province, the youngsters who will power China’s future are at work. At Hangzhou Technician Institute, more than 6,000 students aged between 14 and 20 are learning how to operate drones, manufacture rare-earth magnets, and maintain electric vehicles and industrial robots.

知识点：bank n. /bæŋk/
the land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake. 河岸；湖岸
e.g. We found a nice spot on the bank of the lake for our picnic. 我们在湖岸上找到了一个野餐的好地方。...

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标题：Americans Have Lost Billions to Online Scams. How Is That Possible?

正文：1.The Treasury Department says Americans have lost more than $16.6 billion to an online scam industry largely based in Southeast Asia that targets victims around the world.
2.Scam centers rely on forced labor, and they proliferated during the pandemic. By some estimates they take in at least $64 billion a year.

知识点：scam n. /skæm/
a dishonest scheme; a fraud 骗局；诈骗
• He was caught running an online scam that targeted elderly people. 他因运营一个针对老年人的网络骗局而被抓。
• They warned customers to watch out for investment scams. 他们提醒顾客警惕投资诈骗。

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标题：Tesla Wants to Build a Robot Army
And so does the rest of the auto industry

正文：Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, is now on the path to becoming its first trillionaire. Tesla’s shareholders recently approved a massive pay package for the CEO, including some $1 trillion in stock options. But the payout will happen only if certain targets are met—including Musk’s successful deployment of 1 million Optimus robots.

知识点：on the path to /ɒn ðə pɑːθ tuː/ (phrase)
In the process of moving toward a particular goal or state
在朝着某个目标或状态前进的过程中
• She’s on the path to becoming a p...

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标题：How do you replace a CEO like Tim Cook or Warren Buffett?
Some shoes seem just too big to fill

正文：TIM COOK seems like a nice problem for Apple’s board to have. Since he took over from Steve Jobs in 2011, the iPhone-maker’s boss has lifted annual sales from $108bn to $416bn, operating profit from $34bn to $133bn and market capitalisation from around $350bn to $4trn, equivalent to roughly $700m for every day of his 14-year tenure. Only Jensen Huang of Nvidia has created more shareholder value overall, but most of it in the past two frantic, AI-fuelled years. Only Satya N...

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标题：Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies
Widespread bans don’t seem to be a hindrance

正文：MOST STORIES about gene-edited children begin with He Jiankui, a rogue Chinese scientist who, in 2018, announced that he had created the world’s first such babies in secret.

知识点：gene-edited adj. /dʒiːn-ˈedɪtɪd/
(of an organism) having had its genetic material altered by scientific methods. 基因编辑的
e.g. The supermarket now sells gene-edited tomatoes that have a longer shelf life. 这家超市现在出售保质期更长的基因编辑番茄。

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标题：Collins’ Word of the Year 2025: AI meets authenticity as society shifts

正文：Tired of wrestling with syntax? Just go with the vibes. That’s the essence of vibe coding, Collins’ Word of the Year 2025, a term that captures something fundamental about our evolving relationship with technology. Coined by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to write computer code. Basically, telling a machine what you want rather than painstakingly coding it yourself.

知识点：wrestle with phr. /ˈresl wɪð/
to struggle to deal with or understand something difficult. 努力解决；绞尽脑汁
e.g. The s...

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标题：Tom Standage’s ten trends to watch in 2026
A letter from the editor of The World Ahead Share

正文：This is T’s world—we’re all just living in it. The disruptor-in-chief was the biggest factor shaping global affairs in 2025, and that will be the case for as long as he remains in the White House. His norm-shattering approach has caused turmoil in some areas (as in trade) but has also delivered diplomatic results (as in Gaza) and forced necessary change (as with European defence spending). As the Tornado spins on in 2026, here are ten trends and themes to watch in the coming year...

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标题：What a hit memoir reveals about work in China

正文：NO COUNTRY ON Earth is as mad for online shopping as China. In 2024 consumers there bought 15.5trn yuan ($2.2trn)-worth of goods online—more than anywhere else in the world. Chinese e-commerce is ubiquitous, quick and easy. But that convenience comes at an onerous cost, as Hu Anyan details in his memoir “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”, a bestseller in China recently translated into English.

知识点：ubiquitous adj /juˈbɪkwɪtəs/
present, appearing, or found everywhere 无处不在的；随处可见的
• The brand has become so ubiquitous that you can see it on every street. 这个品牌变得无处不在，你在每条街上都能看到。
• Fast...

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标题：A rats to riches story: Larry the Downing Street cat finds place in TV spotlight
Popularity of Britain’s top mouser – ‘the guy to meet in No 10’ – to feature in documentary series

正文：He’s on his sixth prime minister, has watched presidents and princes walk through the black door of No 10, and will soon become the longest continuous resident of Downing Street since Pitt the Younger. The landscape of British politics has changed a lot in the past 15 years, but Larry the cat has remained a reassuring constant.

知识点：resident n. /ˈrezɪdənt/
a person or animal that lives in a parti...

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标题：Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Farewell: ‘I’m Going Quiet’

正文：In one of his final missives as the company’s leader, Mr. Buffett said he would accelerate his plans to disburse his fortune to his children’s foundations.

知识点：farewell /ˌfeəˈwel/ (noun / interjection)
An expression of good wishes when someone is leaving; the act of saying goodbye告别；道别；再见（用于某人离开时表达美好祝愿）
• Warren Buffett’s letter included a heartfelt farewell to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.（沃伦·巴菲特的信件中包含了对伯克希尔·哈撒韦股东的深情道别。）
• They waved farewell as the train pulled out of the station.（火车驶出车站时，他们挥手道别。）

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笔记： underbelly n. 薄弱环节
这个词字面意思是下腹部，belly 就是肚子的意思，那这里就是指薄弱环节，脆弱点。在例句中表示黑暗面。

The documentary revisited the complex case that revealed a dark underbelly of the K-pop industry in South Korea, garnering widespread attention.
这部纪录片重新审视了这一复杂案件，揭露了韩国 K-pop 行业的黑暗面，引起了广泛关注。

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标题：Government Reopens as POTUS Signs Bill to End Nation’s Longest Shutdown
POTUS signed the bill ending the shutdown after 43 days, after the House approved it, largely on party lines

正文：The federal government began reopening Wednesday night after POTUS signed into law a spending package that narrowly passed the House, ending the longest shutdown in the nation’s history.

知识点：narrowly adv. /ˈnærəʊli/
only by a small margin; barely. 勉强地；以微弱优势
e.g. The home team narrowly won the championship game by a single point. 主队以一分之差勉强赢得了冠军赛。

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标题：How the exasperating, indispensable BBC must change
Its latest crisis needs to spur reforms to bolster its news division

正文：Most of POTUS’s broadsides against the news media are ridiculous. But his anger over a BBC documentary about him that aired last year is justified. An episode of “Panorama”, a venerablecurrent-affairs show.

知识点：exasperating adj. /ɪɡˈzæspəreɪtɪŋ/
causing strong feelings of annoyance or frustration. 令人恼怒的
e.g. The exasperating traffic jam made him late for the important meeting. 令人恼怒的交通堵塞让他错过了重要会议。

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标题：Why human-shaped robots loom large in Musk's Tesla plans

正文：.It has appeared in Tesla showrooms, on its factory floors and has even posed with Kim Kardashian. But Elon Musk's vision for his human-like robot Optimus is much grander than that. Since first unveiling it at a Tesla showcase in 2022, the tech billionaire has suggested his company's droid could play a huge role in the homes and lives of people all over the world.

知识点：loom large /luːm lɑːdʒ/ (phrasal verb)
phrasal verb. to seem important, worrying, or likely to happen soon; 显得突出；令人担忧；逼近
phrasal verb. to appear as a lar...

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标题：Xpeng Debuts 'Most Human-Like' Iron Robot, Details VLT Brain and 2026 Production Goal

正文：1.Xpeng's AI Day 2025 event, themed "Emergence," delivered its most anticipated reveal: the next-generation 'Iron' humanoid robot. In a demonstration designed to showcase its progress, a robot with a distinctly human-like, female form walked across the stage with a gentle, fluid gait.
2. The demonstration was effective—CEO He Xiaopeng noted that during rehearsal, some colleagues asked, "is there a real human inside the iron?".

知识点：deliver v. /dɪˈlɪvə/
to produce or provide something promised or expected; to achieve what is intended. 实现；履行；带来。
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标题：Tesla plans to pay Musk $1tn - do they really need him that much?

正文：A great leader is a huge asset for a company, of course, but can anyone be worth $1 trillion? That is the pay packet Tesla shareholders have approved for Elon Musk, as long as he meets the targets they have set over the next 10 years. In the meantime, he won't collect a salary, but will presumably throw himself into his work with renewed vigour.

知识点：asset n. /ˈæset/
a useful or valuable thing or person. 资产；有用的人或物
e.g. Her ability to solve problems quickly is a great asset to the team. 她快速解决问题的能力是团队的...