在下面的文章中，带有下划线的词汇可以运用到烤鸭们的Task 1当中。

Sydney property prices level off as auction clearance rates tumble

Auction clearance rates cool in Sydney, while Melbourne continues to perform well even with talk of an oversupply of units.

Sydney’s rapid growth cycle appears to be over with auction clearance rates plummeting and prices levelling off over September, new data shows.

· 注意句中”with something/someone doing something”这一常用句型

· “over”一词不仅有“结束”的意思，还可以作为介词指代“在某一个时间段之内”

Property prices in the harbour city grew by just 0.1 per cent in September, according to CoreLogic RPData figures released on Thursday.

· “grow by”之后加上”just”这样的程度副词，能使得描述更加精准；注意学习、积累和正确运用程度副词.

At the same time Sydney’s auction clearance rate tumbled from 73.9 per cent in August to 69.9 per cent over September, Domain Group data shows.

· “tumble”一词表示“幅度较大的下降”，相比”decrease rapidly”更加精炼，也是烤鸭体现自己vocabulary的好机会。

· “From…to…”是很常见的表示时间跨度的连词组合，看上去简单，但是其作用不可忽视。

Domain Group’s senior economist Andrew Wilson said this significant drop in auction clearance rates across Sydney meant a sharp decline in the rate of prices growth was expected.

· 这一个长句里用两个不同的组合表达了同一个意思，即”significant drop in”和”a sharp decline in”；你能体会这种变化的奥妙之处吗？

· “the rate of”在这里是“速度”的意思，比起一些烤鸭会用到的”the speed of”更加地道。

In the June quarter Sydney house prices grew 9.8 per cent –the fastest rate ever recorded by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

· 你能想到多少”grow”的同义替换词？

· 注意ever等与时间有关的副词的用法

“Never say never, but never will we see the rate of growth Sydney has seen [in the June quarter] again,” Dr Wilson said.

Core Logic RP Data put the most recently quarterly growth at 4.6 per cent.

The sub-70 per cent clearance rate was the lowest September result since 2012 and was in stark contrast to ‍May when rates across the city hit an all-time high of 83.3 per cent.

· “the lowest / highest … since…”

· 地道表达：”be in stark contrast to”和”hit an all-time high of…”

“The high volume of listings will continue to test the Sydney market,” Dr Wilson said.

House values fared poorly over the month, dropping 0.2 per cent, while apartment values increased 1.1 per cent, CoreLogic RP Data’s head ofresearch Tim Lawless said.

· “fare well / badly” 是关于某事的进展的地道表达

· “dropping 0.2 per cent”中，之所以使用”drop”一词的现在分词形式，是什么语法现象呢？

· “while”一词把前后两个独立的分句连接成了一个复杂的长句子，而且隐含了前后句所表达现象之间的对比关系，是非常好的句型。

”Vendors are still enjoying strong selling conditions, but it looks like buyers are slowly regaining some leverage in what has been a very hot market,” he said.

“With the first month of spring behind us, it is clear that housing-market conditions are being tested, particularly in Sydney.”

· 用”with”一词引导逗号后的主句之前的一个分句，还有很多其他的例子，烤鸭们能自己写一个句子出来吗？

The city also had record low gross rental yields for houses and apartments, returning 3.1 percent and 4.1 per cent respectively.

· “record low”一词既可以做名词表示“历史最低点”，也可以做形容词。

But Mr Lawless said while clearance rates were slipping, there were still signs ‍that the private treaty market was “relatively resilient” with low rates of discounting and homes selling in just 26 days on average.

Commonwealth Bank economist Diana Mousina said the slow down for Sydney was overdue, having expected prices growth to wind down “from the middle of 2015, rather than nearer the end”.

“In general, the factors driving thehousing market seem to be those putting pressure downwards rather than upwards,” Ms Mousina said.

· “those putting pressure downwards rather than upwards”是”these / those doing something”句型的例子，表示“正在做某件事的某些人/物”。

These include tightening lending standards for investors, tougher serviceability tests and high levels of supply.

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