Task 1 分析
柱图:两张图、两个时间点(1996,2006)。第一张图-total percentage of films released (drama, comedy, fantasy and romance),第二张图-total percentage of ticket sales (drama, comedy, fantasy and romance)
考情分析和预测:
今年bar第5次考到,超过4次的line。这再次印证了bar出题的多样性,从而成为出题的第一选择,与之形成鲜明对比的是pie仍然只考了一次。5月份,大家需要多准备table和pie, 此外进入5月份地图题和流程图出题几率上升,至少需要各练习一篇。
得分要点:
1. 总体情况:两年间的总体走势+四类电影的大小关系
2. 数据分类清晰,为对比创造条件
3. 数据表达的正确、多样
4. 建议写一下两图联系
Task 2 分析
考题:
With computers and Internet, people can study and work without going to school or company. Do the advantages outweigh its disadvantages?
考情分析:
Distance learning/working是一个经典话题,历年来考过多次。但是今年technology 确实考得不多,只有在3月13日考到printed books & electronic books。 这种经典老题一定要注意题目的不同出法。考生可以尝试把这次的题目和下面的老题做下对比。
20130302 Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?
20130718 In modern society, it is possible to go shopping, work and communicate via the Internet without face-to-face contact with one another. To what extent do you think this is a positive or negative development?
C8T3 Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology. In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make? Has this become a positive or negative development?
5月考试预测:
从话题来说,今年尚未考到过crime, animal等话题,需要特别准备。Technology, environment, culture等话题出得不多,需要适当准备。从问法来说,考生需要多准备discuss和report类题目。
审题要点:
1. 题目中出现了study和work,所以学习和工作两方面都要涉及到
2. computer和internet可讲内容较多,大家不要过度扩大话题
思路分析:(仅供参考)
Adavantages:
-方便
Disadvantages:
-工作时间不定
-学习和工作质量
-身体锻炼减少
范文展示:(仅供参考)
I personally believe it is not necessarily bliss for people to study and work wherever they wish rather than in schools or companies.
It is understandable why some people are overwhelmed by the possibility that they can free themselves from commuting every day, sustaining themselves simply by clicking the mouse or touching the screen. They are exhilarated by the hallucination that they were longer to toil and could fully savor the comfortable life brought by technology. Nonetheless, the reality shows a different picture and such a lifestyle could also bring thorny problems.
Firstly, students and employees may feel physically unbound to study or work, yet the almighty technology could actually increase their work pressure and make them become tethered around tasks without much rest. This is typically true for office workers. In the past, many of them had a fixed schedule each day, which was usually terminated when they clock out. With technologies such as email and mobile phone, however, managers are endowed with the ability to find employees whenever they like; consequently, people will gradually realize that they can hardly distinguish their life from work. Some employees, for instance, are called to attend video meetings even when they are on vocation.
Furthermore, the quality of people’s study and work under such circumstances should be questioned. For students, acquiring information and knowledge never equals receiving education. In this age when young people are constantly bombarded by myriad sources of knowledge like on-line courses and electronic gadgets containing lessons by top teachers, instructing students how to learn and providing a learning environment where they could interact and collaborate with others are increasingly indispensable. Without being supervised properly, few teenagers could be self-disciplined enough to concentrate on study. For workers, lack of face to face communication is quite likely to undermine their creativity. There is mounting evidence that most brilliant ideas spring up when people of similar fields are placed together.
Finally, given that people are not urged to travel between home and company or school, most of them will reduce the chance of doing “voluntary exercises”-unconscious sports like jogging to bus stations or riding bicycles, which will gradually raise their likelihood of suffering from health problems like obesity and high blood pressure.
In conclusion, some people may celebrate the comfort and efficiency brought by advanced technology, yet I tend to subscribe to the view that it brings more challenges including balance between work and life, degraded quality of study and work as well as deteriorating health. Overall, I believe it is a negative development.
词汇拓展:
Commute 通勤
Exhilarate 使高兴、使振奋
Clock out 下班
Electronic gadget 电子产品
Self-disciplined 自律的
Undermine 威胁
Jogging 慢跑
Obesity 肥胖症
(编辑:suyan)