Notes:
sales figures: 販売台数
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Details of sales figures over Christmas 2011 show that despite expectations Samsung may have sold more smartphones than Apple. Although Samsung do not report actual numbers sold, Samsung’s Galaxy S II is reported to have sold between 32 and 35 million smartphones between October and December 2011. According to the latest data in terms of actual figures for the year, it looks likely that Samsung sold between 87.6 million and 94.6 smartphones and Apple between 86 million and 99.6 million iPhones. 2012 could be an interesting year for phone lovers.(by Prof. Simon Smith)
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Notes :
pupil 生徒;
prepare～for… ～に…の覚悟をさせる，装備をさせる;
occasionally : 時折（sometimesより低い頻度を示す）;;
administrator: 管理者，担当者;
grade:  成績，評価;
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Some students in Australia were shocked after spending a year studying the wrong book  for an English exam. Eight pupils from a school in Melbourne got a big surprise when they opened the exam paper to find that the book they had studied- Julia Leigh’s The Hunter –  did not appear at all on the paper. It seems that the school had read the wrong syllabus and prepared the students for an old exam. A spokesman from the test said: “It does happen occasionally that schools teach the wrong text to their students.” For the exam, literature students had to write two essays – one each for their studied novel and play. Administrators of the exam said that they would receive a fair grade for what they have done. (by Prof. Simon Smith)
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