You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The diagrams below show the life cycle of the silkworm and the stages in the production of silk cloth.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
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The first process diagram describes the life cycle of the silkworm while the second process diagram summarises the stages in the production of cloth.
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According to the first diagram, the lifecycle of a silkworm can be divided into five stages. Initially, a moth lays some eggs on a mulberry leaf. Then, one of the eggs hatches and a larva that feeds on mulberry leaves appears. Next, after four to six weeks, the larva spins silk threads to form a cocoon in which it pupates. Over the following three to eight days, in the fourth stage the silk threads are spun into a complete cocoon. Eventually, ten days later a moth emerges from the cocoon and then the whole cycle starts over again.
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Then, the second diagram shows in five steps how silk cloth is produced. In the first stage, cocoons are selected and then they are boiled in water. In the third step, each cocoon is unwound into a thread three hundred to nine hundred meters in length. After that, the thread is twisted, woven and eventually dyed.
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Therefore, the process diagrams clearly indicates the processes of how cocoons are created and then how silk cloth is produced.。