1、Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.Practice Test 3, Writing Task 1The chart shows that high income earners consumed considerably more fast foods than the other income groups, spending more than twice as much on hamburgers (43 pence per person per week) th
2、an on fish and chips or pizza (both under 20 pence). Average income earners also favoured hamburgers, spending 33 pence per person per week, followed by fish and chips at 24 pence, then pizza at 11 pence. Low income earners appear to spend less than other income groups on fast foods, though fish and
3、 chips remains their most popular fast food, followed by hamburgers and then pizza.From the graph we can see that in 1970, fish and chips were twice as popular as burgers, pizza being at that time the least popular fast food. The consumption of hamburgers and pizza has risen steadily over the 20 yea
4、r period to 1990 while the consumption of fish and chips has been in decline over that same period with a slight increase in popularity since 1985. (Model answer, 165 words)2.剑雅2Test1-Task1 (Table)The table below shows the consumer durables (telephone, refrigerator, etc.) owned in Britain from 1972
5、to 1983. The chart shows that the percentage of British households with a range of consumer durables steadily increased between 1972 and 1983. The greatest increase was in telephone ownership, rising from 42% in 1972 to 77% in 1983. Next came central heating ownership, rising from 37% of households
6、in 1972 to 64% in 1983. The percentage of households with a refrigerator rose 21% over the same period and of those with a washing machine by 14%. Households with vacuum-cleaners, televisions and dishwashers increased by 8%, 5% and 2%, respectively. In 1983, the year of their introduction, 18% of ho
7、useholds had a video recorder.The significant social changes reflected in the statistics are that over the period the proportion of British houses with central heating rose from one to two thirds, and of those with a phone from under a half to over three-quarters. Together with the big increases in
8、the ownership of washing machines and refrigerators, they are evidence of both rising living standards and the trend to lifestyles based on comfort and convenience. (173 words,a “very good” answer)Test2-Task1 (Bar chart)The chart below shows the amount of leisure time enjoyed by men and women of dif
9、ferent employment status. The chart shows the number of hours of leisure enjoyed by men and women in a typical week in 1998-9, according to gender and employment status.Among those employed full-time, men on average had fifty hours to leisure, whereas women had approximately thirty-seven hours. Ther
10、e were no figures given for male part-time workers, but female part-time had forty hours of leisure time, only slightly more than women in full-time employment, perhaps reflecting their work in the home. In the unemployed and retired categories, leisure time showed an increase for both sexes, as mig
11、ht have been expected. Here too, men enjoyed more leisure timeover eighty hours, compared with seventy hours for women, perhaps once again reflecting the fact that women spend more time working in the home than men. Lastly, housewives enjoyed approximately fifty-four hours of leisure, on average. Th
12、ere were no figures given for househusbands! Overall, the chart demonstrates that in the categories for which statistics on male leisure time were available, men enjoyed at least ten hours of extra leisure time. (173 words, a very good answer)Test3-Task1 (Table) (Band 7, examiners comment: The task
13、is competently reported, although some details are ingored. The message is clear and there is good use of cohesive devices to organise points. Despite some minor errors in spelling and agreement, a good range of structure is used. )剑雅2,Test4-Task1 (Bar chart)The table below shows the figures for imp
14、risonment in five countries between 1930 and 1980.The table shows that figures for imprisonment in the five countries mentioned indicate no overall pattern of increase of decrease. In fact there is considerable fluctuation from country to country. In Great Britain the numbers in prison have increase
15、d steadily 30,000 to 80,000 in 1980. On the other hand in Australia, and particularly in New Zealand, the numbers fell markedly from 1930 to 1940. Since then they have increased gradually, apart from in 1980 when the numbers in prison in New Zealand fell by about 30,000 from the 1970 total. Canada i
16、s the only country in which the numbers in prison have decreased over the period 1930 and 1980, although there have been fluctuations in this trend. The figures for the United States indicate the greatest number of prisoners compared to the other four countries but population size needs to be taken
17、into account in this analysis. The prison population in the United States increased rapidly from 1970 to 1980 and this must be a worrying trend. (167 words,a very good answer)3.剑雅3剑3 ,TEST2,task 1The chart below shows the amount spent on six consumer goods in four European countries.范文:The chart sho
18、ws that Britain, among the four European countries listed, has spend most heavily on the range of consumer goods included. In every case, British spending is considerably higher than of other countries; only in the case of tennis racquets does another country, Italy, come close. In contrast, Germany
19、 is generally the lowest spender. This is most evident in photographic film, where Germany spends much less than British. Germany only spends more than another country, France, in two cases: tennis racquets and perfumes. Meanwhile, France and Italy generally maintain middle positions, averaging appr
20、oximately similar spending overall. Specifically spends more on CDs and photographic film but less on tennis racquets than Italy does. Italys spending on personal stereos is only marginally greater than that of France, while spending on toys is equal between the two.It is clear from the data given t
21、hat there are some significant differences in spending habits within Europe. (155 words,a very good answer)剑3 TEST3,task 1The charts below show the levels of participation in education and science in developing and industrialized countries in 1980 and 1990.The data shows the differences between deve
22、loping and industrialized countries participation in education and science.In terms of the number of years of schooling received, we see that the length of time people spend at school in industrialized countries was much greater at 8.5 years in 1980, compared to 2.5 years in developing countries. Th
23、e gap was increased further in 1990 when the figures rose to 10.5 years and 3.5 years respectively.We can see a similar pattern in the second graph, which shows that the number of people working as scientists and technicians in industrialized countries increased from 55 to 85 per 1,000 people betwee
24、n 1980 and 1990, while the number in developing countries went from 12 to 20.Finally, the figures for spending on research and development show that industrialized countries more than doubled their spending, from $200bn to $420bn, whereas developing countries actually decreased theirs, from $750bn d
25、own to $25bn.Overall we can see that not only are there very large differences between the two economies but that these gaps are widening. (176 words, very good answer)剑雅3, test 4, task 1WRITING TASK 1You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.The graph below shows the unemployment rates in the
26、US and Japan between March 1993 and March 1999.According to the results of the labour-force research published recently, the following conclusions can be drawn from it:In March, 1993, United States had seven percent of their workforce which might not seem disastrous until compared with Japan, where
27、2.5% were unemployed. However, the unemployment rate in United States began declining slowly since March 1993, and reached 5% mark in the middle of 1996. Japan turned out to be less lucky, as their unemployment rate doubled in three years. From then on. the percentage of unemployed workforce in Unit
28、ed States remained roughly the same about 5% until March 99, although there were minor falls and rises in the unemployment rate.As for Japan, the percentage of unemployed fell rapidly by 0.50.6% after March 1996, but from summer 1996 and onwards it grew steadily and without any falls to reach 5.0% b
29、oundary in March 1999.The major conclusion that Ive drawn using the graph, is that number of unemployed inUSA decreased by about 2.0% in the course of six years, while in Japan it actually increased by 2.5% percent. As a result, in March 99, both Japan and US had about 5% of their work force unemplo
30、yed.(band 7. This is a good account of the information presented in the graph, although occasionally theorganisation of the data is slightly unusual. The writer grasps all the key points, however, and supports these with figures, before providing a summary of the main points. Sentence structures are more than adequate, although the writer has some problems with the use of tenses and prepositions. There are minor examples of unsuitable registe
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