题型1——Table（表格）

Cambridge IELTS 4

TEST 1:

The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Sample

Introduction

The table gives a breakdown of the different types of family who were living in poverty in Australia in 1999.

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On average, 11% of all households, comprising almost two million people, were in this position.However, those consisting of only parent or a single adult had almost double this proportion of poor people, with 21% and 19% respectively.

Couples generally tended to be better off, with lower poverty levels for couples without children(7%) than those with children(12%). It is noticeable  that for both types of householdwith children, a higher than average proportion were living in poverty at this time.

Older people were generally less likely to be poor, though once again the trend favored elder couples(only 4%) rather than single elderly people(6%).

Conclusion

Overall the table suggests that households of single adults and those with children were more likely to be living in poverty than those consisting of couples.

Cambridge IELTS 10
TEST 2:
The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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Sample

The two tables contain sales date for Fairtrade coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004, in five nations of Europe.   

The first shows low-level coffee sales increasing in all five countries, albeit to widely varying degrees. In two places sales increased by the same small amount: 1.8-2 million euros in Denmark, and 0.8-1 million in Sweden. The increment was slightly larger in Belgium, from 1-1.7 million euros. Meanwhile, in Switzerland sales doubled from 3-6 million euros. Finally, in the UK there was an enormous increase, from 1.5-20 million euros.   

In the second table, it is Switzerland which stands out as buying far more Fairtrade bananas than the other four countries. Swiss sales figures jumped from 15-47 million euros across these five years, while in the UK and Belgium sales only grew from 1-5.5 and from 0.6-4 million euros respectively. Sweden and Denmark showed a different pattern, with fails in banana sales from 1.8-1 and 2-0.9 million euros.   

Comparing the two tables, it is clear that in 1999 Fairtrade coffee sales ranged from 0.8-3 million euros in these five countries, while banana sales also mostly cluster between 0.6 and 2 million euros, with Switzerland the outlier at a huge 15 million euros. By 2004, sales figures for both products had risen across the board, except for Sweden and Denmark which recorded drops in banana sales.