2006年12月英語四六級考試最后沖刺專題
新東方四六級考前內部串講講義：閱讀理解部分
(1) 描寫圖表反映的問題
(2) 你認為最近幾年中國離婚率高的原因是什么。
Rising Divorce Rates in China
There is a general discussion today about the issue of the divorce rate. As can be seen from the chart, great changes have been taking place. Obviously, China has experienced a dramatic increase in the divorce rate in the previous thirty years.
Some reasons are responsible for this. To begin with, legal changes have simplified divorce procedures, and removed barriers to divorce. In addition, the changes in personal economic activities also facilitate the divorce. Both of the couple can live on their own instead of depending on their partners. In other words, they can make the decision easily, when they would like to break up the marriage. Finally, a significant change can be found in social attitude towards the divorced persons. The discrimination to those divorced people has almost been wiped out.
Generally speaking, it is high time that we place great emphasis on this issue. That is to say, further attention is to be paid to this issue. Obviously, it is necessary that effective actions should be taken to prevent this trend.
圖表的實質和原因現象一樣：
2006年6月的六級作文Traveling Abroad是一篇圖表類文章，在出題方式上基本沿襲是走穩健、成熟的出題風格。
一、題目評析
本次作文的提綱如下：
1、 近十年來某城市越來越多人選擇出去旅游
2、 出現這種現象的原因
3、 這種現象可能產生的影響
盡管它是以圖表的形式出現，但就其實質來說，原因現象類文章和圖表的寫法一致。從近幾年的考試作文看來，行文大多可以套用“中心句＋1、2、3”模式。即，每段第一句是Topic sentence，改編自該段相對應的提綱，后面的1、2、3是鏈接詞，每個1、2、3后接分支觀點。這種表達，中心突出，層次分明，同時也節省了考生構思結構的麻煩。
本文的提綱可以理解為:
第一段、 近十年來越來越多的人選擇出去旅游
第二段、 有很多原因說明此現象。First, … Second, … Third, …
第三段、 這種現象所造成的影響如下。First, … Second, … Third, …
另外，值得注意的是，在圖表作文中，第一段，也就是對圖表描述的這一段，應該只描述圖表的大致趨勢變化，避免用過多文字對圖表進行細節描述。
二、原則應用和高分示范
There is a general discussion today about the issue of traveling abroad. As can be seen from the bar chart, great changes have been taking place in the recent years. Obviously, an increasing number of people are likely to go abroad.
A number of factors are responsible for this. For one thing, they are better-off than before, which means people stand more chances of going out. For another, traveling abroad, in some persons’ views, partly shows that they are superior to those at home. In addition, citizens in that city are easily encouraged by the overwhelming advertisements in TV shows and news papers to go traveling. Therefore, persons in growing numbers have ever been abroad.
From what has been discussed abroad, we may safely draw the conclusion that it brings win-win effects on people’s life. On the one hand, trips abroad may widen their horizons. In other words, people have more opportunities to touch various fields, and learn something new. On the other hand, touring does provide chances of posts or business. To sum up, there is little doubt that further attention will be paid to this issue.
2006年12月英語四六級考試最后沖刺專題
新東方四六級考前內部串講講義：閱讀理解部分
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