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travel insurrance car insurance home insurance
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Line Diagram / graph
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to become lower / to go down:
（下降）
decrease fall drop
to continue to be in an unchanged state:
（保持平稳）
remain steady
to reach the highest point then begin to fall: （达到峰值后开始回落）
(3)
drop in 1996, orders After a sharp _____ recovered for 12 months and then __________ fell again in 1998. _____
(4)
decreasing steadily for two After ___________ leveled off and years, orders finally ____________ recovery 1998. began a ________in
After net income fell by￡0.25m in 1995, there was sharp rise in 1996 due to increased sales and a (1)_______ reduced costs. This was followed by a further rise in net income of ￡0.7m over the next two years: it steadily from ￡1.8m in 1996 to ￡2.2m grew (2)__________ in 1998.
E
level off
F
remain steady recover
peak
increase
a sharp rise rise sharply
（迅猛增长）
a steady improvement improve steadily
（稳步增长）
slight growth grow slightly
（轻微增长）
a: Adjectives give information
about _________ . b: Adverbs give information about _________.
nouns verbs
1. There was a sharp rise in sales of cosmetic products.
(5)
Orders _____sharply in 1997 rose peaked at the end of the year and but_______ fell then ____back to their 1996 levels.
2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Net income
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steady Net sales remained(3) ________at ￡9m in 1994 and 1995 then rose (4)_________in 1996 to reach sharply ￡ 21m. this was followed by further growth as peaked at ￡24m in 1997. However, as a sale(5)__________ strong pound begin to affect exports to Europe, net slightly sales fell (6) _________1998.
peak
to stop climbing higher and continue at a fixed height （攀升到一定高度开始走平）
level off
to get back into a proper state or station （恢复）
recover
A
B
C
decrease
D
increase
2. A slight recovery could lead to huge profits.
3. Sales in Pharmaceuticals remained steady through the year. 4. Sales of cosmetic products rose sharply last quarter.
5. Car Production fell steadily in Finland in 2003.
(1)
remained steady Profits ___________ between 1996 and 1998.
(2)
The insurance claims showed strong growth _______ throughout the three year period.
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pie chart / pie diagram
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bar charts / bar diagram
pants gloves scarf vest
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to go up / to get higher:
（上升）
increase rise
grow improve
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题型分类：
Ⅰ给出图形形式：
① ② ③ ④ Line Chart（线图） Pie Chart（饼图） Bar Chart（柱形图） Table（表格）
Ⅱ图形变化特征： ① Trend（动态） ② Static data（静态） ③ Mixture （Trend+Static）（混合） ④ Picture（图形）