Question

【题目】以下是某报对以色列等五国国民阅读情况的调查结果。请根据图表及要求用英语为你校校刊“英语园地”写一篇短文。

内容要求： （1）简要描述图表内容；

（2）描述该图表反映的问题；

（3）就该问题发表你的观点。

注意：（1）词数150左右；

（2）可适当发挥，以使短文内容充实。行文连贯；

（3）短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：以色列Israel 冰岛Iceland

Recently a survey has been done to find out the average number of books each person reads every year in Israel, Japan, Iceland, France and China.

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Answer 1

【答案】Recently a survey has been done to find out the average number of books each person reads every year in Israel, Japan, Iceland, France and China. According to the survey, Israel comes first with 64 books; Japan, second with 40. Iceland ranks the third with 24, while France come fourth with 11. It's a pity that China comes last with a miserable 0.7.

The survey shows there's a great difference in terms of people's reading rate in different countries, and Chinese people in particular lack the good habit of reading.

In my view, this is a very serious problem. Knowledge is now recognized as the driving force behind economic growth. If we don't read, how can we acquire the knowledge necessary to keep us with other countries?

【解析】试题分析：本文是一篇图表作文。根据图表对以色列等五国国民阅读情况的调查结果为校刊“英语园地”写一篇短文。内容要求：简要描述图表内容；描述该图表反映的问题；就该问题发表你的观点。写作时要认真分析图表上的提示，首先第一段要描述图表，得出结论；第二段根据图表比较分析原因，论证结论；第三段发表议论，提出自己的看法。写作时注意时态、语态的合理运用，同时应选用合适的连接词或过渡词使文章流畅自然，适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

【亮点说明】

本文是一篇图表作文，文章真实反映了图表要表达的内容，并伴有自己的观点。文章采用三段式，语句精炼，层次分明，过渡自然，布局合理，文中使用高级词汇和句子。while France come fourth with 11.此处while表示先后形成鲜明对比；It's a pity that China comes last with a miserable 0.7.运用了it作形式主语；If we don't read, how can we acquire the knowledge necessary to keep us with other countries?条件句和问句完美结合；另外，in terms of，in particular，In my view等的运用使文章上下文自然衔接。