雅思图表作文笔记

Preferences of Students in an American University in 2002

?The American university students vary in our reading taste. Some prefer classics while others like popular books

better. A specific case here is the reading preferences of students in an American university.

?According to statistics, for the year 2002, popular fiction was their favourite, accounting for 65.9 percent of book

circulation in the library. General nonfiction ranked second, with 18.2 percent. Books on science, technology and education altogether accounted for 10.8 percent while art, literature and poetry proved to be the least popular, with merely a 5.1 percent.

?Based on the preceding data, it is justified in claiming that for those students, books served primarily a

entertainment purpose. They preferred the books that were relaxing and repelled those with an education function.

Therefore, it could be concluded that the students did not make an appropriate use of their library resources.

?Popular fiction gains the most popularity among the American university students.

?Popular fictions take an overwhelming superiority to the books of science, technology and literature.

?The data speaks for itself that popular fictions prevail (流行)among American university students.

?According to the World Tourism Organization, American receipts from tourism in 1997 totaled $75 billion. Italy

ranked second with receipts worth $30 billion. France and Spain came equal third, while Britain was fourth.

?In 1997, China enjoyed a bigger percentage increase in revenue from foreign visitors than any other country. Its

receipts from tourism exceeded/surpassed/were over $10 billion, increasing by 18.4% /representing an increase of 18.4%/ up 18.4% over/against a year earlier. Turkey also enjoyed a 17.4% increase in receipts from tourism.

?Hong Kong suffered an 11.1% fall in tourist revenues, while Austria’s income fell by 11.4%.

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The line graph represent information about the unemployment in Liverpool, London, and Great Britain from 1992 to 2000.

The figure for Liverpool remains stable at 6% for 1992 and 1993, before increasing sharply over the next 2 years to 15%. The decline began from 1995 and it hit the bottom of 8% in 1999. At the end of the period , the figure again rises quickly to 11% in 2000.

The figure for London begins at the same level as Liverpool’s ﹙6％﹚, but afterwards never exceeds Liverpool’s. In 1993 and 1994 the figure remains stable at 4% , followed by an increase to 7% in 1996. Thereafter, there is a steady decline to 3% in 1998. The figure remains stable at this level in 1999, before doubling to 6% in 2000.

The figure for Great Britain begins at 7% in 1992 and drops to 5% in 1994. Then the figure increases in 1995, back to the level in 1992 , and remains at that level in 1996. Between 1996 and 1999, the unemployment figure drops gradually to 4%, prior to rising slightly to 5% in 2000.

According to these figures, we can see that the unemployment trend is similar for the two cities and Great Britain as a whole. However, the figures for London and Liverpool fluctuate more than the figures for Great Britain. The unemployment figures for Liverpool significantly exceed the others.

The pie charts show the percentages of accidents happened during people playing with fireworks. There are mainly four situations that accidents are more likely to take place, with the corresponding statistics displayed in 1995 and 2000. In 1995, firework accidents happened most frequently at public displays, which occupied the largest part with 50% of all. Next was at family parties, whose percentage constituted 20% of the total. The remaining 30% was evenly shared by pub celebrations and teens playing alone, each with 15%.

In 2000, however, the rate of accidents at public displays went down sharply by 20%, exceeded / surpassed by that

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family parties, which increased dramatically by 1.5 times and became the largest of all. In addition, the ratio of accidents occurred when teens playing alone still stayed at 15%, and it is worth mentioning that the smallest portion was at pub celebrations in 2000 with only 5%, which was just one third of its counterparts in 1995.

In conclusion, as clearly shown in the two pies, firework accidents are most likely to occur at public displays and family parties, and the chances of leading to accidents in private individual activities such as family reunions and children playing by themselves definitely increased during the five years.

From the chart, we can see obviously that the change of data is generally divided into three broad categories as follows:

In the first group, the trend is upward. Firework accidents at family parties made up 20% in 1995, while its percentage went up sharply to 50% in 2000, being the largest portion.

However, the second group presents a decreasing trend. The ratio of firework accidents that happened in public displays declined by 20% from 50% (the lion’s share) in 1995 to 30% in 2000. What’s more, in 1995, ac cidents at pub celebrations accounted for just 15%, whilst the chart described a threefold drop to only 5% in its percentage in 2000.

As shown in the last group, the rate remained steady at 15% in the accidents occurred when teenagers played alone.

The chart shows the different modes of transport used to travel to and from work in one European city in 1950, 1970 and 1990.