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• 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.
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• So from the analysis, we can draw a conclusion that our society is progressing and people are living a bettler life than ever before. We are now able to purchase more delicious and nutritious food, resulting in an improvement in our health.
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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
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• 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）
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• 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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• 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%.
• 你认为目前大学生在计算机使用中有什么困 难和问题。
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• 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。
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• 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.
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• 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…)
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• 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. • In recent years, the time students using computers has increased greatly.
大学英语四级图表作文
图表作文
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• 1.表作文（table)： • 2.图作文可分为3种： • pie chart:饼图/圆形图 • bar chart /graph:直方图/柱形图/条形图 • line chart /graph/curve diagram:曲线图
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• 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%.
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• 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:
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• 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.
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• 第二段 topic sentence: 分析变化原因 • There are many factors that have
stimulated this huge change. • Such changes are mainly caused by two
reasons. • 第三段 总结 • In short, with the improvement of people’s