五月的史努比
提纲图表式作文属于控制性写作的范畴。它控制性强，便于评分。考生应仔细分析图表，引证典型数据并按提纲要求进行取材与构思。
例：Title: Changes in people's diet。State the changes in people's diet in the past five years. Give possible reasons for the changes。Study the following table carefully and your composition must be based on the information given in the table。
图表作文也是四(六)级考试中常见，而且被认为是一种较难的作文形式。图表作文就是把非文字信息(通常为各种图表表示的数字信息等)转换成文字信息的一种作文。它要求我们用文字来描述非文字性的图表或对图表显示的关系作解释说明。下面我们先来看一看图表作文的类型。
辅音
（注：多数辅音的读音与拼音差别不大，可以通过拼音来进行谐音；还有一部分辅音没有对应的拼音字体，这里我们主要是针对/θ ð ʃ ʒ/这四个辅音）其中，/θ/和/ð/这两个音标，它们并没有相近似的拼音来对应，主要是靠嘴形来记忆。
/θ/――上下牙齿咬着舌头尖，发“斯"的音；/ð/――舌头顶上牙堂发拼音z一声；/ʃ/――师；/ʒ/――牙齿闭合，舌头虚碰牙齿发拼音r一声。
初夏红豆冰
写作模板——图表式作文 It is obvious in the graph/table that the rate/number/amount of Y has undergone dramatic changes. It has gone up/grown/fallen/dropped considerably in recent years (as X varies). At the point of （接近）X1, Y reaches its peak value of …(多少). What is the reason for this change? Mainly there are … (多少) reasons behind the situation reflected in the graphic/table. First of all, …(第一个原因). More importantly, …(第二个原因). Most important of all, …(第三个原因). From the above discussions, we have enough reason to predict what will happen in the near future. The trend described in the graph/table will continue for quite a long time (if necessary measures are not taken括号里的使用于那些不太好的变化趋势). 图表作文经典句型总结图表作文要求考生用文字材料把图表中所提供的信息准确、完整地表达出来。在写作图表作文时，首先要仔细观察并分析图表，以及题中所给出的有关信息，比如，作文标题，英文提纲、英文提示、英语关键词等。在分析图表时，要抓住与主题有关的信息，要发现数据呈现的规律，要充分利用图表中的图形、数据等来说明主题。但是注意不要过多地引用数据，以免造成滥用数据的后果。另外，在写作图表作文时可以套用一些常用词汇或表达方式，这将有助于你写出较为地道的图表作文。（1）常用的开篇句型（即概述图表内容时常用的表达法）① According to the table/pie chart/line graph/bar graph, we can see/conclude that … 根据该表/图，我们可知 ……② The table/graph reveals (shows/indicates/illustrates/ represents/points out) that … 该表/图表明……③As we can see from the table …As can be seen from the line/bar graph …As is shown (illustrated/indicated) in the pie chart … 如表/图所示，……(2) 描述增减变化常用的句型① Compared with …… is still increased by …② The number of … grew/rose from … to …③ An increase is shown in …; then came a sharp increase of …④ In … the number remains the same/drops to …⑤ There was a very slight (small/slow/gradual) rise/increase in 1990.⑥ There was a very steady (marked/sharp/rapid/sudden/ dramatic) drop (decrease / decline / fall / reduction) in 1998 / compared with that of last year).(3) 对于上升趋势的描述：a. 可以使用的动词或动词词组：to increase to go up to rise to growto jump to leap to soar to shootto pick upb. 可以使用的名词：an increase a growth a jump a soaran upward trend(4) 对于上升到某个位置的描述：动词＋to the peak of＋具体数据。 动词＋reaching the peak of +具体数据。动词＋reaching + 具体数据。 to peak at ＋ 具体数据to climb to + 具体数据(5) 对于上升的程度的描述：动词＋by ＋ 具体数据。(6) 对于下降趋势的描述：a. 可以使用的动词或动词词组：to fall to decrease to go down to slideto collapse to decline to dropb. 可以使用的名词：a collapse a decrease a fall a declinea drop(7) 对于下降到某个位置的描述：动词＋to＋具体数据。 动词＋to＋the bottom of＋具体数据。动词＋reaching the bottom of +具体数据。 动词＋reaching + 具体数据。(8) 对于下降程度的描述：动词＋by ＋ 具体数据。(9) 对于平稳的趋势的描述：可以使用的动词或动词词组：to hardly change to have little change to keep steadyto level off to remain constant to stay the same(10) 表示程度的副词： 1. 程度较大：considerably dramatically greatly markedlyobviously quickly rapidly sharplysignificantly suddenly2. 程度较小：slightly gradually slowly steadily(11) 时间的嵌入嵌入时间时所使用的介词和介词词组：from……to…… between…….and…… during……and……at the start of …… by the end of …… over ……at the end of …… throughout ……(12) 上升和下降趋势的组合描述1. 先上升后下降的句型：... increased slowly during… and … but fell sharply in …A steady fall in …… during …… and …… followed the sharp increase in …….2. 先下降后上升的句型：… fell before …… began to make a recovery ……… continue the recovery, climbing to ……… dropped during …… but increased again in ……… fell and then pick up during ……… collapsed before rising to ……at the end of ……3. 起伏波动的句型：… fluctuated sharply all through ……4. 波动不大的句型：… hardly changed through the period between …and …
