1. Are you looking for someone who can translate this contract into Portuguese? What about our new secretary, I hear she had stayed in Brazil for several years.
2. Finding employment is not easy these days even in big cities. If I were you, I would be delighted wih such a job offer.
3. Also present at the conference is Dr. Madison, who will join our discussion this afternoon to give an expert view on the current situation of global economy.
4. If you intend to try bungee jumping, most countries require that you be over the age of 18, and join a bungee jumping club, or be properly instructed for the sport.
5. Keeping a business firm running is far more difficult than starting it. According to current statistics, two thirds of new business firms will fail in the first five years.
6. Scientists report that hunting or eating wild animals not only destroy the balance of nature, but also run the risk of being infected by virus from animals.
7. We can never learn a foreign language in the same way as we acquire our first. For even a 3-year-old child can have thousands of hours of contact with his mother tongue.
8. Once you enroll in full or part-time courses at this college, our services are all free of charge, except that you pay 30 pence a copy for any photo copying made here.
9. If you have yet to appoint a new sales manager in charge of our L.A. office, Mrs. Coleman was born there and has good connections.
10. Suppose the gasoline tank of your car holds 20 gallons and you average 16 miles to the gallon, how far can you drive on a tank tull of gasoline?
本次Statements題并沒有特別的難句,都是新東方課堂上分類詳述過的,比如第二句的虛擬語氣、第四和第九句的條件句型、第十句的數字計算等。
最難的莫過于最后一句,考生乍一聽可能不知所云,但我們在課堂上提到過數字題的考法無非兩種――直接答案型和計算,而計算也不會超出加減乘除的范圍。因此只要記下20 gallons和16 miles的關鍵字,應該能想到將兩者相乘。
牽涉到的話題以商務和經濟居多,比如第一句的商務翻譯、第二句的求職、第三句的全球經濟形勢、第五句的企業運營、第九句招攬人才等,參加明年3月考試的同學應該引起重視。