Statement：

1: I hope you won't mind my mentioning that it’s past five o'clock and we've still got tomorrow morning to talk things over.

2: It's a real scorching day today and the forecasters are saying that there is no ending side. It seems we'd better stay indoors for the next few days.

3: Peter often has a lot of good ideas and starts to implement them, but he rarely follows them through to completion.

4: If you go to Europe, you'll find that many city centers have been turned into pedestrian precincts and the cars been almost banned.

5: Statistics show that lawyers are the most depressed of all professionals. Lawyers are always acting on behalf of someone else. Suicide is among the leading causes of death among lawyers.

6: Although it may feel like it, a headache is most often not a pain in your brain. Your brain quickly tells you when other parts of your body hurt.

7: The Internet environment is not necessarily friendly for language learners, because they have to use their language appropriately in so many different real-life social situations.

8: More people live by themselves. And more women work. And more money is available. These are the reasons why one of every three American food dollars now goes to restaurants or fast-food shops.

9: Just because someone has been your best friend since elementary school, it doesn't mean he or she will make a great roommate. Often living together can destroy even a close friendship.

10: Young mothers who sacrifice their jobs to care for small children often complain about the loneliness of their new lifestyles, since they have thus lost their form of adults’ social interaction.

【解析】

縱觀十個(gè)statements，整體難度不大，主要還是和人們息息相關(guān)的工作、學(xué)習(xí)和生活內(nèi)容，比如，Statement 1就是常用生活口語(yǔ)的典型例子；Statement 9主要講朋友友誼話題；Statement 10陳述年輕媽媽的生活等。但該部分仍需特別注意一些難詞或短語(yǔ)，比如scorching，pedestrian precincts，sacrifice等，理解了這些生難單詞對(duì)把握整個(gè)statement的意思是大有裨益的，建議考生平時(shí)多積累常用單詞或表達(dá)。