第一類：日常生活

　　歷年四級作文話題中，有4篇為日常生活類。

　　The Tape Recorder

　　Changes in People's Diet

　　The World Is Getting Smaller and Smaller

　　My Most Favorite Programme

　　這些話題都是關于我們日常生活中的變化，尤其是物質上的變化。有的甚至伴有圖表，讓大家看圖寫作文。

　　我們先來看一篇范文：

　　From the chart we can see that during the past five years there have been great changes in people‘s diet. The greatest change occurs in grain consumption, which has dropped 4% from 49% in 1986 to 45% in 1990 in total food consumption. The second greatest change is in milk consumption, which increased from 10% in 1986 to 13% in 1990. But on the other hand, two trends can be observed in the consumption of meat and fruit and vegetables. From 1986 to 1989, meat consumption increased from 17% to 23% while that of fruit and vegetables dropped from 24% to 20%. From 1989 to 1990, meat consumption dropped a little to 21%, while that of fruit and vegetables increased a little to 21%.

　　What has caused the great changes in people‘s diet? The main reason, I think, lies in the improvement in people‘s income level. With the development of our society, people are becoming richer and richer, which enables them to purchase more nutritious food such as meat and milk. In the meantime, grain consumption in people‘s diet consequently dropped.

　　So from the analysis, we can draw a conclusion that our society is progressing and people are living a better life than ever before. We are now able to purchase more delicious and nutritious food, resulting in an improvement in our health.

　　從范文中我們可以對這類話題有個大概了解。日常生活類文章一般可以寫成描述性文章。如果有圖表，那么我們一般需要準備的工作有一下幾方面：

　　1.審題

　　在看到這篇作文要求的時候，不要盲目的下筆，而是仔細揣摩一下題目想讓我們表達哪方面的意思，也就是側重點。拿上面的范文來說，側重點就是人們生活水平提高了，國家富強了。那么我們寫作的中心就要圍繞著這個側重點而來。

　　2.構思

　　在寫之前，心里要有一個譜-我要寫幾段?每段描寫什么?有什么主題句?這三個問題也是寫其他類型作文的基本步驟。因為考試時間只有30分鐘，所以不允許我們浪費一分一秒。有的考生就是因為沒構思好，寫到一半想要重新來寫，結果時間不夠，而且卷面很亂，心里最后慌為一團。

　　3.亮點

　　一篇作文貴在有亮點，吸引人。四級作文評分時，閱卷老師分配給每篇作文的時間很短。那么我們就要考慮如何來用自己的亮點贏得閱卷老師的好評。這是一個小小的捷徑。我們可以看一下上面的范文：三段中都圍繞著飲食水平展開。從一個方面擴大到大方向：社會在進步，人民生活水平在提高。其中第二段的第一句話也就是本段的主題句(What has caused the great changes in people‘s diet? The main reason, I think, lies in the improvement in people‘s income level.)，用問答方式來寫，與眾不同，會給閱卷老師極深印象。

　　框架有了，但里面得需要我們填充內容，才能讓整篇作文讀起來有質感。句式，單詞，復雜句等要配合好。有的同學平時背了很多好句子，考試時一股腦都搬到作文中，但有的句子不一定適合本篇主題。

　　說了這么多，現在我們以：Changes in Mass Media 為題來練習一下