考试日期

2019年11月2日

类别

Bar chart

题目

The table shows the percentages of different age groups who enjoy three types of music in Australia.

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

题目翻译

该柱状图描述了澳大利亚不同年龄组听古典音乐，歌剧，流行乐的人数百分比。

要素回忆（数据仅供参考）

静态表格，横向为五个不同的年龄段，不同的颜色对应的是不同的音乐种类，纵坐标为人数的百分比。

写作指导

1. 注意时态，没有年份的情况下用一般现在时态。

2. 可先进行同一种音乐下，不同年龄段的人的比例大小比较，找出喜欢和不喜欢这类音乐的年龄段群体。

3. 再将年龄段变量固定，分析某一年龄段喜欢和不喜欢的音乐。

重点表达式

It can be readily identified from the graph that …

XX proves most appealing to those falling in the age bracket between ___ and ____.

XX enjoys greatest popularity among those aged from ___ to ___.

XX is evidently a less attractive option to ___ than XX is.

题目评价

难度一般

近期考试趋势

近三个月考的大多是线图、柱图和表格，根据以往经验，接下来几次需注意饼图、流程图及地图。

考试日期

2019年11月2日

类别

工作类

题目

The world of work is changing rapidly and people cannot depend on the same job or same conditions of work for life. Discuss the possible causes for this rapid change and give your suggestions on how people should prepare work in the future.

题目翻译

工作在发生的*的变化，人们已经不能依赖于一辈子做同一份工作。讨论这个*变化的潜在原因，并且给出建议人们应该如何对未来的工作进行准备。

写作指导

这是一篇报告类的文章，需要学生思考原因和解决方法。重要的是审题的步骤。学生一定要看清楚这篇文章是要求写工作在变化，我们已经无法一辈子从事一个工作的原因，以及人们应该如何应对。原因和解决方法的内容可以参考下面的内容。

原因：

1. 科技在*的发展。很多的科技被融入到各行各业中，使得旧的工作消失，从而产生新的类型的工作。
2. 消费者需求在不断的变化。公司为了迎合消费者的变化从而需要改变他们自己的做法，对工作产生了新的要求。

解决方法：

1. 人们可以与时俱进的了解每个行业新的动态。任何变化都不是一夜之间出现。提前了解这些变化会给人们带来一定的优势。
2. 人们可以学习相关的技能，从而为今后改行做出充分的准备。

写作范文

Permanency used to be a salient, immutable feature characterizing paid jobs in the past. Now, such trait has been stripped from our modern understanding of what a job means to us. Frequent switching between tangentially related lines of career has almost become a norm. The causes are diverse, yet there are effective strategies to prime contemporary working adults for such drastic changes.

One prominent cause motivating such radical shift lies in the dawn of novel technologies and inventions that transform the landscape of many traditional industries and sectors. Cutting-edge technologies are actively and indiscriminately adopted and incorporated into industrial practice, rendering jobs that rely heavily on manual power obsolete and generating plenty of new jobs for which technologies could do most of the work. Besides, there is an oft-neglected social dimension attached to such change. The elimination and creation of jobs constitute part of a timely response to the ever-changing, unpredictable shift of consumer needs. While consumers’ taste is evolving, profit-driven companies have to make constant adjustments and adaptations as well, thus turning job permanency into a remote fairy tale.

Yet, pessimistic picture painted of such transformations is often unnecessarily exaggerated. There is plenty we could do to make adequate preparation in advance. First, keeping oneself abreast of the latest developments of the industry will endow people engaged in the industry with first-mover advantage. Instead of being left in the dark and making painful changes as required, we could take initiative of transforming ourselves from the role of followers into that of pioneers. Sources such as professional journals or applications that send industrial updates on a regular basis could be of tremendous assistance. An alternative strategy is to pick up a broad range of professional skills and knowledge to prepare for the worst-case scenarios. In case of industrial downturn or total collapse, the original skillset people rely on is no longer helpful; developing new skills to ready oneself for a career shift is thus crucial. Fortunately, a host of online courses are available to guide dummies from beginner’s level to that of experts.

In conclusion, the dawn of advanced technologies and shifts in consumer tastes prove the dual drivers of dramatic changes at workplaces and working adults can prepare themselves by either gaining access to latest development in the industry or arming oneself with an eclectic range of skills before it is too late.

重点表达

Strip something from something

Tangentially related

The advent of cutting-edge technologies

Render something obsolete

Constitute a response to something

Worse-case scenarios

Ready oneself for something

题目评价

难度一般

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Many young people keep changing their jobs once every few years. Why? Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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