大学英语四级图表类写作

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20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0
1990
1995
2000
• 2002.6 Student Use of Computers • Directions: For this part, you are allowed
thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: Student Use of Computers. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below: • 上图所示为某校大学生平均每周使用计算机 的时间：1990年（2hours）,1995年 (4hours), 2000(20hours), 请描述变化： • 请说明发生这些变化的原因（可从计算机的 用途、价格或社会发展等方面加以说明）
• Along with the time spent on computers, there arise some problems. The most serious one is that many students are spending so much time playing PC games so that they ignore their studies. It is urgent to let the students use computers in a proper way.
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0 第一季度 第二季度 第三季度 第四季度
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Pie chart
Line graph
Line graph
谋篇方法
• 1.先描写数据变化 • 2.再分析变化背后的原因 • 3.最后是笔者的个人看法，预测未来的
发展趋势或提出解决问题的方法。
• 又如： milk 和 meat的变化，都说明了 同一观点：人们的经济收入增加了，生
活水平提高了，能够消费得起价格较高 的肉奶食品。这样，描述milk的变化后， 就不必要重复meat的变化。简单一 句：”The same is the case with meat.”即可。或者直接计算出增加值或 减少值，如：”The amount of grain in people’s diet has decreased by 4%. However, the amount of milk has increased 3% and that of meat has increased 4%.
• In recent years, the time students using computers has increased greatly.
• What has caused the great changes in people’s diet? The main reason, I think, lies in the improvement in people’s income level. With the development of our society, people are becoming richer and richer, which enables them to purchase more nutritious food such as meat and milk. In the meantime, grain consumption in people’s diet consequently dropped.
table
1980 1987 1988 1989
Grain
49% 47% 46.5% 45%
Milk
10% 11% 11% 12%
Meat
17% 20% 22.5 23%
Fruit and 24% 22% vegetable
Total100% 100%2源自% 100%20% 100%
1990 45% 13% 21% 21%
• 你认为目前大学生在计算机使用中有什么困 难和问题。
• 分析：此柱形图表明，随着时间的推移， 大学生越来越多地使用电脑。
• Students tend to use computers more and more nowadays. Reading this chart, we can find that the average number of hours a student spends on the computer per week has increased sharply. In 1990, it was less than 2hours; and in 1995, it increased to almost 4hours; while in 2000, the number soared to 20hours.
• 4.使用主题句 • 通常第一段的topic sentence 说明发
生了某种变化。例如：
• Great changes have been taking place in (e.g. people’s diet, student use of computers…) from 1995 to 2000.
• The second greatest change is in milk consumption, which increased 3% from 10% in 1986 to 13% in 1990, but on the other hand, two trends can be observed in the consumption of meat and fruit and vegetables. From 1986 to 1989, meat consumption increased from 17% to 23%, while that of fruit and vegetables dropped from 24% to 20%. From 1989 to 1990, meat consumption dropped a little to 21%, while that of fruit and vegetables increased a little to 21%.
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• 1.State the changes in people’s diet(饮食）in the past five years;
• 2. given possible reasons for changes.
• 3.draw your own conclusions.
• 4. you should quote as few figures as possible.
• From the table we can see that during the past five years there have been great changes in people’s diet. The greatest change occurs in grain consumption, which has dropped 4% from 49% in 1986 to 45% in 1990 in total food consumption. (continue…)
• 2. 筛选数据，切忌一一列出！
• 挑选有说服力的数据， 主要是首尾两端 的数字或其增减值。
• 以表1为例：
• The percentage of grain consumption decreased gradually, from 49% in 1986 to 45% in 1990.-----简明扼要。
如何写好图表作文
• 1.对比分析，寻找数据的变化规律 • 举例（1991.6）Changes in People’s Diet • Directions: • For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes
to write a composition of no less than 100 words on Changes in People’s Diet. Study the following table carefully and your composition must be based on the information given in the table. Write three paragraphs to:
• Obviously, computers are becoming more and more popular. There are several reasons for this. First, computers facilitate us in more aspects of life. Also, the fast development of the Internet enlarges our demands for using computers. We can easily contact with friends in remote places through the Internet. Besides, the prices of computers are getting lower and lower, which enables more students to purchase them.
• 通过横向、纵向对比分析，不难发现 grain的消费量逐年下降，5年间减少了 4%，而milk的消费却逐年增加，meat的 消费也逐年增加。纵向看，milk 和meat
变化趋势相同，占总消费量的比例在增
大，而grain 的比例变化正相反，从而归 纳出一个总的变化规律：grain 的消费量 在减少，而milk 和meat的消费量在增加。