雅思小作文

雅思小作文

1、剑桥8-1

The pie chart indicates the main causes of worldwide land

degradation, while the table demonstrates the detailed

percentages of those reasons in three regions in the 1900s.

As is clearly shown in the pie chart, there were four main

reasons of land degradation around the world. The dominant

cause was over-gazing, which led to 35% of degradation of the

global land, followed by deforestation and over-cultivation,

causing 30% and 28% of land degradation respectively. Other

reasons, however, only resulted in 7% of the land being degraded.

when it comes to the causes in the listed three regions, it is

clear from the table that Europe suffered most from land

degradation, with totally 23% of its land being degraded, among

which deforestation took up the leading role(9.8%), and over-cultivation as well as overgrazing were just close behind, with 7.7%

and 5.5% .Oceania, had its 13% of land degraded, showing quite

a high damage from overgrazing at 11.3% but no damage from

over-cultivation. However, North America, reflected a better

situation in its land degradation (only 5%), with the largest

damage from over-cultivation at 3.3%.

To sum up, the causes of world land degradation showed

different resultS when individual area was measured

2、剑桥8-2

Research findings from the three pie charts indicate how the

annual spending changed in a specific school in the year of

1981,1991 and 2001.

teachers’ salaries, taking up the largest share of the

spending, increased rapidly from 40% in 1981 to 50% in 1991,

but was then reduced to 45% by spending on resources

such as books, had a similar trend, rising from 15% to 20%, and

then dropped to only 9% during the period.

Furniture and equipment, showed a totally different trend.

The spending fell from 15% to only 5% , but then rose sharply to

23% in 2001.

The expenditure on other worker s’ salaries decreased all

the time in stages from 28% to 9% while that on insurance grew

first slightly by 1% to 3% but later soared to 8% by 2001,but still

being the lowest among all the spendings.

3、剑桥5-2

figures from the two bar charts illustrate for which reasons

students of different age groups studied and how much support

they received from employers

the rate of students who chose to study for career and for

interest had totally different trend with the growth of their ages .

The former declined stably from 80% at the age of under 26 to

only about 18% at the age of over 49, while the latter increased

gradually from 10% to 70% of the same

group of people. Interestingly, the rate of people studying

for career and those for interest were the same at 40% at the age

of 40-49.

the rate of people who were supported by their employers

first fell from around 61% at the age of under 26 to approximately

at 30% at the age of 30-39, and then it gradually rose to 40% at

the age of over 49. Noticeably, people who were 30-39 years old

were the mainstream of workforce and thus received the least

employer support in training.

4、剑桥7-2

The graph unfolds consumption of fish and some different

kinds of meat changed in a country in European from the year of

1979 to 2004.

As to the consumption of beef and lamb, they both

witnessed a sharp decline over the period. Specifically, that of

beef first had a fluctuation around 200 grams per person per

week between 1979 and 1989, being the largest in comparison

with the consumption of other 3 kinds. However, from then on,

the number fell constantly to its bottom at about 100 grams in

2004. Likewise, that of lamb went down in stages during the

period from 150grams to approximately 60 grams.

However, the consumption of chicken showed an opposite

trend. In detail, the number increased sharply from below 150

grams in 1979 to 200 grams 1989, exceeding that of beef to be

the first one in the chart, after which it continued to grow stably

to about 250grams in 2004.

Interestingly, the consumption of fish, always being the

lowest in number, decreased slightly 60 grams to a little less than

50 grams in the duration.

5、剑桥8-4

A glance at the graph provided reveals the relative qualities

of goods transported in the UK by four different modes from

1974 to2002. There were considerable fluctuations in output in

all four modes of transport, with lows in 1974 and highs in 2002.

The largest quality of goods transported during the period

was by road, growing in stages from 70 million tons in 1974 to

its peak at about 98 million tons in 2002. However, the lowest

quantity of goods transported over the years was by pipeline,

although it rose constantly from 4 million tons to around 21

million tons.

In comparison, the amounts transported by water and rail

showed quite different trends. Starting from a little below 40

million tons in 1974, that by water increased to about 60 million

tons in 1990, followed by a slight decline to 50 million tons before

climbing sharply to its peak at 65 million tons in 2002. However,

that by rail, having a similar start, experienced a downward

fluctuation to its bottom at approximately 30 million tons in 1995,

before it picked up to 40 million tons again in 2002.

to sum up, although the total amount of goods transported

over the years were on the rise by all the modes, the road

remained the most popular method of transporting goods in the

UK

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The diagram provides information about the proportion of

marriages and divorces in the USA from 1970 to 2000 and the

rate of adults about marital status in two of the years.

As to the number of marriages and divorces, it is clear that

the former was larger than the latter, with the former on the

decline and the latter in a fluctuation during this period. Precisely,

from 1970 to 1980, the number of marriages remained stable at

its peak (2.5 million), after which, there was a slight drop every

decade until it reached 2 million in 2000. Differently, the number

of divorces started with 1 million in 1970 and then it proliferated

gradually, attaining the highest number with little less than 1.5

million in 1980. Thereafter, the statistics went down slightly,

touching 1 million in 2000.

Turning to the marital status of American adults, there were

four categories, namely the people who never get married, the

married, the widowed and the divorced. In particular, the

percentage of married people was the most prominent,

occupying 70% and 59 % in 1970 and 2000 respectively and

proportion of those never married was second to it, but had a

different trend. In 1970, the rate of widowed people ranked the

third place while the rate of divorced ones took up the last.

However, in 2000, the ratio of divorced people and that of the

widowed changed positions.

To sum up, during this 30 years, more people tend to stay in

a not married status.

The line graphs illustrate the percentage of the population

aged 65 and over between the year 1940 and 2040 in Japan,

Sweden and America.

Turning to Japan, which showed the lowest rate of old people

for most of the time, we can see from the line graph that there

were only 5% of 65-year-old people in 1940, after which it even

decreased steadily to 3% in 1960 and then remained there for the

following 30 years. From 1990 onwards, the percentage rose to

10%.After 2030, the proportion of the old was predicted to

increase sharply to exceed the rates in other two countries to be

number one, followed by a slower growth to its peak at27% in

2040.

As for the situation in Sweden, we can see a similar trend,

although with a lower rate, as that in the USA，with a little

difference between the period from 2000 and 2030,when it

increased quickly to surpass that of the USA to be the top one in

the chart.

As to the percentage of old people in the USA, it increased

first slightly and then sharply from 9% in 1940 to 15% in

then on, the figure slightly decreased to 13% in 2010,

before it was expected to stabilize there until 2020 when it

started to grow dramatically to its peak at about 23% by 2040. In

comparison, the rate turned from the highest one (during the

first 60years) to the lowest one (during the last 10years) over this

100 year period.