(1)1997年真題。Directions:

　　Study the following set of pictures carefully and write an essay in no less than 120 words.

　　Your essay must be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　Your essay should cover all the information provided and meet the requirements below:

　　1. Interpret the following pictures.

　　2. Predict the tendency of tobacco consumption and give your reasons.

 

　　真題分析：

　　這是典型的圖表+提綱式的命題，題目中提供的材料十分豐富，包括柱狀圖、餅狀圖以及其他相關數(shù)據(jù)。組圖充分反映了當代煙草消費的規(guī)模、危害和趨勢，是人們普遍關心的熱點話題之一。通過對組圖的分析，我們可以看出煙草在全世界有著十分龐大的消費群體規(guī)模，每年因為煙草消費消耗的資金數(shù)額大得驚人，同時也有數(shù)以百萬計的人由于煙草消費而被奪去了生命。當然，我們從圖中也可以發(fā)現(xiàn)一個令人欣喜的趨勢，那就是煙草的總產(chǎn)量在近幾年呈下降的態(tài)勢，一定程度上說明了煙草消費引起的健康問題開始得到了人們的重視，并出現(xiàn)了相關的解決措施。

　　本題的難點在于圖表給的信息量太大，考生如何最恰當?shù)卦谌�文中使用�?shù)據(jù)將決定文章的質(zhì)量。如果一味將所有數(shù)據(jù)都堆在第一段，會造成第一段過于冗長，全文頭重腳輕。在下面的范文中，圖表數(shù)字得到了靈活的運用，比較得體。比如文章在一開始先用煙民人數(shù)占全世界人數(shù)的比例來說明了煙草消費的巨大規(guī)模，然后又通過該行業(yè)消耗的人民財產(chǎn)和生命進一步說明產(chǎn)業(yè)之大、對人類危害之重。而至于第一幅圖中關于煙草產(chǎn)量的數(shù)字則被用到了第二段中來說明未來的趨勢，非常得體、恰當。

　　思路拓展：

　　近年來國人越來越關注健康問題，隨著2008年北京奧運會的即將到來，在中國更是掀起了全民健身的熱潮。因此健康問題將是中國社會的一個長期熱點問題，考生應該在這方面積累素材、有所準備。相關話題可以引申到知識分子的身體健康問題、全民健身熱潮、健康意識、鍛煉身體的習慣、健康與安全等等，這些都是平時經(jīng)常可以遇到的一些話題。

　　范文：

　　Tobacco is one of the commodities that are consumed in an immense amount worldwide. From the pictures, we can learn that the global smoking population amounts to 1.1 billion, approximately 20% of all the worlds’ residents. 200 billion dollars are spent annually in order to purchase tobacco and relevant products, which further stimulate the business’ flourishing development. Meanwhile, the harm caused by tobacco consumption is experiencing a similar upward trend—statistics indicates that 3,000,000 people die of smoking and related diseases every year.

　　Nevertheless, given the pessimistic statistics at the present, we can still predict optimistically that tobacco consumption will decline based on several new tendencies that are emerging. In the first place, there is an extensive public awareness of the negative impact of smoking, and as a result, more people resist the tempetation of cigarettes. In the second place, governments are setting more regulations to limit tobacco production. The effectiveness of such a policy was testified by the prompt drop of the tobacco production from 14.364 billion in 1994 pounds to 14.2 billion pounds in 1995 as seen in the picture.

　　In short, I firmly believe that, with the efforts of the whole society, we can launch more movements to realize a cleaner world with less smoking.

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