2018年大学生英语竞赛知识点整理之作文篇

2018年英语竞赛知识点整理之作文篇

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The Primary Energy Consumption in the United States and in China in 2011

①The two pie charts above show the primary energy consumption in the United States and in China in 2011 respectively.

（作文开篇直接点出话题，给出了信息，完成了说明文开头的主要任务。）

②The first chart describes the situation of energy consumption in China. It indicates that coal is the dominant energy consumption, accounting for 70 percent of the total energy consumption. The other two major fossil fuels, oil and natural gas, take up 18 percent and 4 percent respectively. These three kinds of fossil fuels, in aggregate, already account for over 90percent of all the consuming energies, indicating that fossil fuels play a vital role in China’s energy consumption in the recent years. The remaining 8percent of energy consumption includes nuclear power and some kinds of renewable sources like hydroelectric and so on. Among them, nuclear power accounts for 1 percent. As for the renewable sources, hydroelectric takes up 5percent and another 1 percent taken up by other renewable sources.

（这一段按照题目要求，描述了图1的主要特点。而作者突出表现为：能够基于

图表内容进一步分析，实属难得，例如文中的画线部分，把煤、石油、天然气这三大化石燃料归纳在一起进行总结；分析的层次清晰，词汇选择上能注意多样性，

如account for和take up的交替使用。）

③The second pie chart exhibits the percentage of energy consumption in the United States. Similarly, the major three kinds of fossil fuels are still the dominant part in energy consumption, with coal, oil, and natural gas accounting for 22 percent, 37 percent and 28 percent respectively. The nuclear power takes up 8 percent and the 5 percent left is occupied by renewable sources--3 percent for hydroelectric and 2 percent for other renewable sources.

（这一段介绍了图2的基本信息。同样，作者能够在描述信息的基础上进行分析和总结，层次清晰，并借助图1三大化石燃料比例大的特点用连接词similarly 巧妙处理。）

④The analysis of the features of the two charts makes people perceive certain connections and comparisons between them. As for the connections, Just as mentioned earlier, consumption of the fossil fuels accounts for a great deal in both China and the United States. However, the two charts, if compared carefully, also show that the structure of primary energy consumption varies in the two countries.

（这一段简要介绍了题目的第二项任务，寻求两个图表之间的对比。在下两段进行具体分析。）

⑤Firstly, among the three major fossil fuels, coal is the dominant energy in China to a degree up to 70 percent, while in the United States, the number is much smaller-- only 22 percent, but oil and natural gas take up larger proportion. Why does this come about? Because China is a developing country, and due to the current limited technology, there is still a long way to go if Chinese people would like to widely popularize