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开场白：

Good afternoon! It’s a little weird to open the program in the afternoon instead of morning. But this is an odd week anyway. If you live and work in China, it is very likely that you are on your second work day for a long work week. I mean a long week, 7 days to be more specific. So, hope you find some joy in listening to this program.

今天是长假之后的第二个工作日。希望你的一周开始的很顺利。对一个超长的工作周来说，这个星期才刚刚开始。

Let’s kick off the program with program with a trivia questions. So, last time we talked about when TOEFL started in in China, which is in 1981. But, what about other language tests? Do we even have any? Take a guess and you might be surprised.

Daily Phrase:

Front and center: of the greatest importance; prominent. 至关重要的

Why is this matter suddenly front and center?

He's a natural collaborator, someone who's happy to be part of an ensemble without feeling the need to be front and centre.

E-health and telemedicine was front-and-centre at the debate.

新闻摘要：

• Monday: Tesla shares crater 9% after Musk’s electric vehicle giant fell short on quarterly car deliveries, while Musk makes waves over his Twitter poll proposal for peace in Ukraine, with terms more friendly to Russia than Ukraine or the White House backs, including ceding part of the country’s internationally recognized territory
• Tuesday: Twitter discloses Musk told the company he would move forward with the original purchase terms the parties agreed to in April valuing Twitter at $44 billion, sending Twitter’s stock up 22% and bringing the messy saga between Musk and Twitter to an apparent end two weeks before a trial to force the deal through was set to begin.
• Wednesday: Musk and Twitter’s fairytale ending lasts barely a day before reports in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times indicate the sides remain at odds over certain details, and that Musk lobbied for as steep as a 30% discount.
• Thursday: Musk reveals in a tweet he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on a video call in 2021, while the judge presiding over Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk pushes back the trial scheduled for October 17, setting an early November trial date if the parties don’t close the deal by October 28.
• Friday: Tesla shares sink another 6% to $224.45, declining 12% on the week and hitting a four-month low, while Musk hits back on a Financial Times report that the Starlink internet terminals provided to the Ukrainian army by Musk’s SpaceX were experiencing outages on the battlefield, with Musk tweeting it was “bad reporting” and that anything on the frontlines is “classified.”

Word of the Day (WoD):

• Eccentric: (of a person or their behavior) unconventional and slightly strange. 特别的
• Cede: give up (power or territory). 割让
• Saga: a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic. 传奇
• At odds: in conflict or at variance. 冲突