Statement：

　　1. George started his new job with King Brothers only a month ago and he wants to invite his boss, the sales manager to dinner.

　　2. I got some bad news today. The store with which I work is laying off stuff. I’m worried that they are going to let me go.

　　3. You are not supposed to see Gary tonight. He plans to finish his financial report this week and he is too busy for parties these days.

　　4. I hope our first supply will induce your customers to place regular orders in the future. And we both can make big profits.

　　5. These books are two weeks overdue. But luckily for me, there’s a moratorium this week on fines. They are trying to encourage returns.

　　6. May is a time for green grass, picnics, and unfortunately, examinations. In the United States, high school students take their final examinations at the end of every school year.

　　7. China is now the third largest producer of films in the world. However, most of the revenue came from a handful of the movies produced.

　　8. Let me explain why I questioned the feasibility of the project. We don’t appear to have enough time. If we were to push our people, the quality of the product becomes questionable.

　　9. While some species of whales are nearing extinction, many countries refuse to accept even a partial ban on whale hunting.

　　10. In 1950, New York City was the only city with a population of ten million. Now, in 2010, worldwide we have 38 cities with populations of over ten million people.

　　【解析】

　　statements總體難度不高，但是對于lay off，induce，overdue，moratorium，revenue，feasibility等詞還是需要同學(xué)們平時(shí)的多多積累。另外，做題過程中還要注意對數(shù)字的敏感度，如statement 10就出現(xiàn)了包括年份、人口數(shù)量、城市數(shù)量在內(nèi)的多個(gè)數(shù)字，千萬不要一定到數(shù)字就犯暈。其實(shí)做statement還有一個(gè)要點(diǎn)是聽出一些包含轉(zhuǎn)折、遞進(jìn)、讓步等含義的信號(hào)詞，本次的statement中出現(xiàn)了不少but，however，while，利用這些關(guān)鍵詞準(zhǔn)確把握句意是做題的關(guān)鍵。