考试日期

2019年9月7日

类别

Bar

题目

The bar chart shows the changes of the proportion of American people who live alone from 1850 to 2000 by age groups.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

题目翻译

该表格显示了美国1850至2000年不同年龄独居人数比例的变化。

选取主要的特征对信息进行概括，在相关的地方进行比较。

要素回忆（数据仅供参考）

这个柱状图的内容主要从两个维度来进行分析。

首先，在同一个年份下，不同年龄段的独居人数的大小比较。

其次，同一个年龄段在这150年间的变化趋势。

这篇文章比较排序和变化的内容和语言都用到了。

写作指导

1. 注意时态，要用过去时。

2. 一个年龄段在这个时间段内的比例变化。

3. 不同年龄段在同一个时间下的比较排序。

重点表达式

A salient feature that can be identified from the graph is that ________.

Both were rising, albeit to widely varying degrees.

By briefly glancing at … it is apparent that …

____ jumped, attaining the peak of ___/hitting the bottom of ______

A notable difference lies in _______

The sharply contrasting difference between A and B

题目评价

难度一般

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考试日期

2019年9月7日

类别

经济环境类

题目

Some people say economic growth is the only way to end world poverty and hunger, whereas others say economic growth is damaging the environment so it must stop. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

题目翻译

一些人认为经济发展能够解决*贫穷和饥饿，而另一些人认为经济发展会破坏环境所以必须停止。讨论两方面观点并且给出自己的观点。

写作指导

1. 注意时态，不要出现过去时（除非举过去的例子）

2. 不管立场是中立还是一边倒，一定要讨论双方观点

推荐思路：四段式

Opening: 背景介绍，表达观点

Body1: 经济发展不一定能够解决这些社会问题

Body2: 不能让整体的经济为造成环境问题的工业化背黑锅

Conclusion: 问题的根源不应该是要不要发展，而是应该如何发展

写作范文

Economic well-being has long been deemed the predominant al shared across all countries. Despite the promise of wiping out worldwide poverty and improving quality of life, its environmental implications appear to be equally pronounced, posing challenges for many vernments that attempt to strike the tricky balance between public welfare and conservation of our fragile Earth. However, a closer scrutiny reveals a tangle of much more complicated, underlying issues than meets the eye.

Granted, an improved, robust economy is a self-serving panacea for those living in penury and facing critical shortage of food supply. Yet, such argument only remains theoretically valid in an idealized world. Countries suffering from these social malaises are assumed to be impoverished, the vernment rampantly corrupt, the social systems disreputably problematic. The possibility of the country’s self-initiated, magical policies catapulting the country along a trajectory of high-speed growth is slim, if not none. Hopes of financial assistance afforded by neighboring countries that experience economic progress may fail to deliver the desired outcomes either, since any forms of donations might run the risk of being siphoned off by corrupt officials. Once the inadequacy of economic growth to tackle social challenges has been recognized, whether it remains the sole solution becomes unworthy of discussion.

On the environmental front, leftists blame economic growth for devastation of our environment, a notion that has an element of truth in it. After all, industrialization, the powerhouse behind economic development, is the source of a range of environmental problems confronting us today. Yet, calling to end economic growth on this account is not only partial but also untenable. Industrialization is already in its terminal phase of development; many countries are now ushering in an era in which service industry becomes the economic backbone. In fact, many new, emerging industries that thrive on the Internet are eco-friendly by nature. Thus, economic growth is a vastly broad concept that should not be entirely discredited for undesirable consequences caused by only the ugliest part of the picture.

Upon a meticulous consideration, economic growth is neither the recipe for lifting the poor out of poverty nor the major culprit for environmental problems. A more profound question that warrants our attention is not whether it should be done, but how it is to be done.

重点表达

Pose challenges to…

Strike the tricky balance between A and B

A self-serving panacea

Catapulting a country along a trajectory of high-speed growth

Fail to deliver the desired outcomes

Siphon off

Unworthy of discussion

In its terminal phase of development

Be entirely discredited for…

Lift the poor out of poverty

Warrant our attention

题目评价

难度一般

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