雅思小作文

1、剑桥8-1

The pie chart indicates the main causes of worldwide land degradation, while the table demonstrates the detailed percentages of those reasons in three regions in the 1900s.

As is clearly shown in the pie chart, there were four main reasons of land degradation around the world. The dominant cause was over-gazing, which led to 35% of degradation of the global land, followed by deforestation and over-cultivation, causing 30% and 28% of land degradation respectively. Other reasons, however, only resulted in 7% of the land being degraded.

when it comes to the causes in the listed three regions, it is clear from the table that Europe suffered most from land degradation, with totally 23% of its land being degraded, among which deforestation took up the leading role(9.8%), and over-cultivation as well as overgrazing were just close behind, with 7.7% and 5.5% .Oceania, had its 13% of land degraded, showing quite a high damage from overgrazing at 11.3% but no damage from over-cultivation. However, North America, reflected a better situation in its land degradation (only 5%), with the largest damage from over-cultivation at 3.3%.

To sum up, the causes of world land degradation showed different resultS when individual area was measured

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Research findings from the three pie charts indicate how the annual spending changed in a specific school in the year of 1981,1991 and 2001.

teachers’ salaries, taking up the largest share of the spending, increased rapidly from 40% in 1981 to 50% in 1991, but was then reduced to 45% by 2001.The spending on resources such as books, had a similar trend, rising from 15% to 20%, and then dropped to only 9% during the period.

Furniture and equipment, showed a totally different trend. The spending fell from 15% to only 5% , but then rose sharply to 23% in 2001.

The expenditure on other worker s’ salaries decreased all the time in stages from 28% to 9% while that on insurance grew first slightly by 1% to 3% but later soared to 8% by 2001,but still being the lowest among all the spendings.

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figures from the two bar charts illustrate for which reasons students of different age groups studied and how much support they received from employers

the rate of students who chose to study for career and for interest had totally different trend with the growth of their ages . The former declined stably from 80% at the age of under 26 to only about 18% at the age of over 49, while the latter increased gradually from 10% to 70% of the same

group of people. Interestingly, the rate of people studying for career and those for interest were the same at 40% at the age of 40-49.

the rate of people who were supported by their employers first fell from around 61% at the age of under 26 to approximately at 30% at the age of 30-39, and then it gradually rose to 40% at the age of over 49. Noticeably, people who were 30-39 years old were the mainstream of workforce and thus received the least employer support in training.

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The graph unfolds consumption of fish and some different kinds of meat changed in a country in European from the year of 1979 to 2004.

As to the consumption of beef and lamb, they both witnessed a sharp decline over the period. Specifically, that of beef first had a fluctuation around 200 grams per person per week between 1979 and 1989, being the largest in comparison with the consumption of other 3 kinds. However, from then on, the number fell constantly to its bottom at about 100 grams in 2004. Likewise, that of lamb went down in stages during the period from 150grams to approximately 60 grams.

However, the consumption of chicken showed an opposite trend. In detail, the number increased sharply from below 150 grams in 1979 to 200 grams 1989, exceeding that of beef to be the first one in the chart, after which it continued to grow stably to about 250grams in 2004.

Interestingly, the consumption of fish, always being the lowest in number, decreased slightly 60 grams to a little less than 50 grams in the duration.

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A glance at the graph provided reveals the relative qualities of goods transported in the UK by four different modes from 1974 to2002. There were considerable fluctuations in output in all four modes of transport, with lows in 1974 and highs in 2002.

The largest quality of goods transported during the period was by road, growing in stages from 70 million tons in 1974 to its peak at about 98 million tons in 2002. However, the lowest quantity of goods transported over the years was by pipeline, although it rose constantly from 4 million tons to around 21 million tons.

In comparison, the amounts transported by water and rail showed quite different trends. Starting from a little below 40 million tons in 1974, that by water increased to about 60 million tons in 1990, followed by a slight decline to 50 million tons before climbing sharply to its peak at 65 million tons in 2002. However, that by rail, having a similar start, experienced a downward fluctuation to its bottom at approximately 30 million tons in 1995, before it picked up to 40 million tons again in 2002.

to sum up, although the total amount of goods transported over the years were on the rise by all the modes, the road remained the most popular method of transporting goods in the UK