四级图表作文讲解与训练

rise fall drop

例句A. The number of color TV sets produced by the factory increased (rose , grew , climbed) from 5000 in 1986 to 21000 in 1990. 这个工厂生产的彩电已由1986年的5000台增加到1990年的21000台。

例句B. The number of participants grew up to 300000 persons.

参加者的人数增加到30万。

例句C. The number of teaching staff members in this school has decreased to 700 persons. 这个学校的教职工人数已减少到700人。 5. （be）three times as + 形容词 + as 总产量 total output

年产量the annual output of 上升17％ rise by 17per cent 日产量 the daily output

导致产量下降 result in a diminished output 例句The grain production (= output)in our area now is three times as great as that of 1970.

现在我们地区的粮食产量相当于1970年的3倍。

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例句The factory has an output of 9 million cigarettes daily. 6. Compared with … , …

例句Compared with that of last year, the output of 13 main products (= items) this year has increased to a great extent. 与去年相比，今年13项主要产品的产量都有大幅度增长。 7. There is (was) a rapid rise in … be on the rise on the increase sudden decrease on the decline steady decline gradual fall slow drop slight

例句The cotton output in this area has increased rapidly in the past few years. 最近几年来这个地区的棉花产量有了迅速增长。

①As can be seen from the table (graph, form)... ②From the above table it can be seen (concluded) that...

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③A careful study of the table shows that...

④The number (percentage) is 3 times as much as that in 2000.

⑤In 2001, it increased (went up, rose) from 5 to 15 percent of the total (to 15 percent, by 10 percent).

This bar chart describes significant changes in the ownership of houses in a big city in China. It can be seen from the chart that a very noticeable trend from 2000 to 2010 was the dramatic increase in the private ownership of houses as opposed to the huge drop in the state ownership of houses. In 2000, three out of four houses were state-owned. However, by 2010, the percentage of the ownership of private houses has soared to 80%.

The above chart reveals that the huge expansion in the private house ownership has been accompanied by a corresponding相应的 fall in the state ownership of houses in a span of a decade. (2000-2010)

As is suggested ( unfolded表明 / demonstrated /

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illustrated / mirrored 反映) in the above chart, with the sharp rise in the private ownership of houses, the state ownership of houses has dramatically ( substantially / alarmingly ) dropped in a passage of a decade. (2000-2010)

According to the above chart, there has been a drastic growth in the private ownership of houses, while the state ownership of houses has shrunk steeply over the past decade.

From the above chart, we can see distinctly that the private ownership of houses has witnessed an huge rise as opposed to / in contrast to the drastic decrease in the state ownership of houses in a matter of a decade.

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