三十五个经典句型帮你过写作关

Study this graph then choose the correct answer from the drop down box.

 

Road convictions (1) fell slowly fell dramatically fluctuated sharply remained steady in 1981, from about 480 to about 250 people per

10 000,and then (2) fell steeply declined gradually plateaud slowly increased until 1985. At this point they began a steep rise

which (3) fluctuated increased bottomed out peaked at about 3.3% in 1989. The figures (4) fell slowly fell sharply plunged dramatically bottomed out in 1990

and (5) remained steady bottomed out fluctuated increased over the next year. The (6) number of deathsnumber of accidents driver rate conviction rate then

(7) fell gradually bottomed out fluctuated fell suddenly until 1994 with (8) a steady rise a maximum hardly any change only a small minimum over the (9) next four years hundred and fifty last decade minimum .

Check your answers

Describing Areas Of Little Or No Change and the Highs And Lows.

In IELTS Lesson 1you learned how to describe trends and changes. In this lesson you will look at describing areas of little change and also the high and low points of a set of data.

B) Describing areas of little or no change. Insert a time phrase from Table 1 into one of the time positions.

Table 1 Time phrases.

From (time 1) to (time 2) Between (time 1) and (time 2) During (month or year) In (month or year) On (day) On the (date) At (time; hours/minutes)

Time	Quantity	Past Verb	Adjective	Time
	The price etc.	held	steady
		remained	steady stable constant

Time	There was	Adjective	Noun	Time	In Quantity of	Time
	There was	little hardly any only a small no	change shift alteration		in the price of in the number of etc

C) Describing the highest and lowest points on the graph.

Time	The quantity	peaked		Time
		reached hit	a peak a high (point) maximum
		bottomed out
		reached hit	a low (point) rock bottom the bottom a minimum
		hit a trough

Exercise 2

Describe the changes and trends in home mortgages between 1955 and 1998.

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