第 1 章 考试简介

评分标准:

  1. TR: Task Response
  2. CC: Coherence and Cohesion
  3. LR: Lexical Resources
  4. GRA: Grammatical Range and Accuracy

行文的基本结构 介绍段:背景 + 阐述立场 主体段(不止一段):

  • 中心句 + 解释 1+ 解释 2+ 拓展结果
  • 中心句 + 背景 + 拓展结果 + 举例 结论:再次表明立场 +(总结观点)

ABC 审题法 A-B-C 因 - 果 - 果

题目出现的要素考生思考的重点
1. 确定一个动作或事件 A往后思考其结果
2. 确定一个结果 C往前思考其原因
3. 既确定了 A,也确定了 C思考为什么 A 导致了 B

第 2 章 大作文

优缺点类题目

  1. 范文1 老龄化
  2. 范文2 进口产品

观点类题目

  1. 范文1 立法
  2. 范文2 看电视
  3. 范文3 刑期
  4. 范文4 学费

2.2.19 增加句子结构的变化

方法举例
【原始句子】People can live close to the office.
1. 利用句子的动词写个并列结构People can live close to the office and walk to work.
2. 加状语(地点、时间、方式、频率等)People can live close to the office and walk to work every day.
3. 加入原因或结果If more blocks of flats are built in the city center, people can live close to the office and walk to work every day.
4. 加入对比的内容,用 instead of, rather than, while, whereas 等引导If more blocks of flats are built in the city center, people can live close to the office and walk to work every day, instead of living on the outskirts and commuting by using different forms of transport.
5. 举例解释句子中的名词,用 including, such as, especially 等引导If more blocks of flats are built in the city center, people can live close to the office and walk to work every day, instead of living on the outskirts and commuting by using different forms of transport, such as buses and train services.
6. 某些名词可以考虑用定语从句增加信息If more blocks of flats are built in the city center, people can live close to the office and walk to work every day, instead of living on the outskirts and commuting by using different forms of transport, such as buses and train services, which can be time-consuming.
7. 加上名词性从句,如 think, believe 等,或者 it is true/clear/ evident that 等Some people argue that if more blocks of flats are built in the city center, people can live close to the office and walk to work every day, instead of living on the outskirts and commuting by using different forms of transport, such as buses and train services.

摘自P179-P180

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第 3 章 图表作文

主要步骤:

  1. 确定图的类型,静态重比较/动态重趋势
  2. 图的要素:对象词、时态、描述对象或者比喻对象
  3. 作文

常见时态:

  1. 一般过去时
  2. 一般现在时/现在完成时
  3. 一般将来时
  4. 过去完成时

图表作文数据的表示

百分比表达方法举例
40% of students
the proportion of boys
boys account for 40% of students
the figure for boys is 40%

将百分比也可以转化为分数

百分比分数1分数2
90%the vast majority ofnine out of ten
75%three quarters ofnearly eight out of ten
66%two thirds of
55%over half of
33%one third of
25%one quarter ofmore than ten out of ten
10%one tenth ofone in ten
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图表作文连接词的选择

突出图的不同

  • As shown in the second chart…
  • It is clear from the second chart…
  • The second chart shows that…

突出对象词的变化或者描述对象的变化

  • With regards to…
  • Concerning…
  • As for…

突出趋势的改变或者高低的变化

  • Different trends/patterns are seen in…
  • The figures for other… were lower…
  • a different / the opposite/pattern
  • a similar/the same trend/pattern

连接词

  • by comparison
  • on the other hand
  • in contrast
  • meanwhile
  • in the meantime 使用代词连接 This trend was also seen in… The figure for this country…

连词 表示并列:and 表示转折和对比:while, whereas, but, although

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描述动态图的趋势和幅度

趋势动词(一般可能为过去式)名词
上升rose, increased, climbed, grew, jumped, surgedrise, increase, growth
下降dropped, fell, declined, decreased, dipped, slideddrop, decline, decrease
保持不变stood at, remained virtually unchanged at, leveled off at

修饰幅度副词(根据需要也可以转变为形容词使用) slightly, modestly, gradually, steadily, noticeably, significantly, remarkably, markedly, dramatically, rapidly, sharply, steeply

通过变化词性实现用词多样化

上升下降
动词increaseddeclined
名词+ofan increase ofa decline of
名词放在句首The growth of…the decline
使用 seesaw a dramatic increasesaw a steep drop
使用 up 或 downreached …, up… from a year agodown…
现在分词放在居中rising todropping to
想在分词 showing + 名词 放在句中showing an increase ofshowing a decrease of
词组was on the risein decline
趋势an upward trendthe downwarned trend
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静态图常见的比较

注意比较对象应为同一性质的

不同的情况例句
比较主语Country A has a bigger population than country B.
比较定语The population of country A is bigger than that of country B.
compared with, incontrast toCompared with country A, country B has a small population.
similar to, the same as, different fromThe population of country A is different from that of country B.
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倍数的表达(注意:下降没有倍数)

倍数动态静态
2 倍doubled, increased twofoldtwice
3 倍tripled, increased threefoldthree times
4 倍quadrupled, increase fourfoldfour times

第 4 章 书信写作