2008年6月5日
You should spend 20 minutes on this task.

The table below shows the cost of water in five Australian cities in 2004.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

City Usage charge per kilolitre
(up to 125kl) Usage charge per kilolitre
(over 125kl) Water bill per household
Adelaide $0.42 $1.0 $310
Brisbane $0.78 $0.78 $312
Melbourne $0.84 $0.84 $253
Perth $0.42 $1.5 $332
Sydney $0.98 $0.98 $319

Sample Answer:

The figure gives the information about how the water cost in five cities of Australia Year 2004 is compared. （這不僅僅是單純的對題目文字的改寫，更重要的是暗示考官“我已經(jīng)充分讀懂了題目，下面要把表格闡述的盡善盡美?！保?/p>

Specifically,（這是一個信號，標志著整篇文章采取“總分”的形式?？脊俸苋菀桌斫饽愕乃悸?，并且站在你的角度去考慮問題） in 2004, water bill each household, the least of all items, （不要小看這個插入語，它可以讓你的句式更為活潑，邏輯更為嚴謹，增加強調(diào)的意味，體現(xiàn)出你的語言水平）was 253 dollars in Melbourne, where the usage charge per kiloliter was 0.84 dollars, whether the total of water use was up to 125 kiloliter or over. The similar pattern was found in usage charge per kiloliter in Sydney and Brisbane, 0.98 dollars and 0.78 dollars respectively.（我還想向考生推薦這個詞。在眾多的數(shù)字和表格項面前，縱然你能夠始終保持清醒，但是你不能保證你啰嗦的描述讓考官一直把你的文章看完。用一下這個詞，眾多的數(shù)字可以放在一起，用一個簡潔的句型一目了然。） By contrast,(它的意思是“對照、對比”。后面的內(nèi)容與前面的內(nèi)容具有相同的量級，但是具有不同的方向。) that of Adelaide, 0.42 dollars, was the same as that of Perth when the total is no more than 125 kiloliters, but once the total was beyond the limit, both increased to 1.0 and 1.5 dollars individually. The water bill per family in Perth, the top, was 332 dollars, but that in other three cities was nearly 310 dollars.

All in all, in many parts of Australia the water charge per kiloliter depends on the total of water use, while the pattern is not in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. And there is a big difference in （這是一個總結(jié)，與開頭相呼應(yīng)告訴考官你的英文功底是扎實的，不會寫虎頭蛇尾的文章）water cost per family in the five cities.