本次分享的雅思小作文真题围绕一张表格展开,该表格呈现了 2002 年五个不同国家消费者在不同项目上的支出情况。要求考生通过选取并汇报主要特征,在相关处进行比较,来概括表格中的信息,考查考生从图表中提炼关键内容以及运用英语准确表述的能力,评判主要从内容(TA)、组织(CC)、遣词(LR)、造句(GRA)四个维度进行。
开头段 “Shown in the table is five countries’ consumer spending on three categories of items, and the year of 2002 is studied. Overall, there are apparent differences and similarities between the five countries.” 运用了倒装句式,值得注意的是,此处动词的单复数要由倒置后的主语决定,这样的开头方式能够简洁明了地引出图表主题,即五个国家在 2002 年关于三类物品的消费支出情况,同时强调了这五个国家之间存在明显的差异与相似之处,为后文的展开做了铺垫。并且,在表达比较关系时准确地使用了 “between”,体现了不同国家之间的对比关系。另外,正确运用了地点的所有格形式,使表达更符合英语语法规范。
主体部分第 1 段 “In all the five countries, buying food, drinks, and tobacco (the first category) was the largest expenditure, and the smallest was leisure and education. Turkey and Ireland are notable: the Turkish allocated over 30% of their total spending to food, drinks, and tobacco, and Irish consumers spent a bit less. Spain also draws attention. Its percentage for leisure and education was merely 1.98%.” 采用了总 —— 分、递进的结构。先是总体指出在所有五个国家中,食品、饮料和烟草的消费是最大支出项,而休闲与教育是最小支出项,然后分别以土耳其、爱尔兰、西班牙为例进行具体阐述,使内容更具细节和层次感。
“In addition, in the first category, the percentage of the other three countries – Sweden, Italy, and Spain – ranged from roughly 16% to 19%. In the category of clothing and footwear, Italy, with 9%, ranked first. The other countries had the percentages of more or less 6%. Lastly, the cost of leisure and education cost was within a narrow range of 2% to 4.5% of the total spending.” 整体采用罗列写法,清晰地呈现了不同类别下各个国家的相关消费占比情况。
结尾段给出了示例 “These five countries had an overall similarity and yet clear disparity in details.”,通过 “yet” 这个转折副词巧妙地构建起句子内部的逻辑,将五个国家总体的相似性和细节上的差异性联系起来,简洁有力地总结了图表所反映的整体情况。当然,如果开头段已经对图表宏观情况做了综述,结尾段也可省略,具体根据写作时的整体布局和表达需要来决定。
总之,这篇雅思考试小作文真题范文在内容概括、结构组织、词汇运用以及句子构造等方面都严格遵循了雅思小作文的评分要求,为考生提供了一个很好的参考范例,有助于考生学习如何从不同维度去完成一篇高质量的雅思小作文,提升自身的写作能力,更好地应对雅思考试中的图表类作文题目。