Directions: Write an essay based on the graph below. Your essay should be written according to the following outline:
1. Rise and fall of the rate of labour force and total employment in Hong Kong as indicated by the graph
2. Possible reasons for the rise and fall of the two items.
3. Your predictions of what will happen in the future.
参考范文
Labour Force and the Employed Population of Hong Kong
(year-on-year growth rate )
The graph shows us the year-on-year growth rate of labour force and the employed population of Hong Kong from 1991 to 1996.
From the beginning to the third quarter of 1992, both the labour force and the employed decreas on the whole. In the first two quarters of 1991, labour force increased more than 1%, but employed population decreased 0.4% in the first quarter this year. And in the second quarter, it increased 1%. Unfortunately, from the third quarter of 1991 on to the third quarter in 1992, both labour and the employed decreased to their lowest point of the six years.
From the third quarter of 1992 to the fourth quarter of 1993, the two items increased a lot. At the beginning of third quarter in 1992, however, both labour and the employed started to increase until the fourth quarter of 1993, with increasing amount of 4.5%. But, from then on to the end of 1994, the labour force and the number of the employed, generally speaking, are falling.
In 1995, on the whole, the two factors are increasing. In the last quarter of the year, both the labour force and the employed have a sharp increase to their peak.
In 1996, however, the first two quarters in 1996 show us a sharp decrease. Fortunately, at the third quarter, they begin to increase.
I think there are several reasons for the rise and fall of both the labour force and the employed population. First, there is a political factor. Due to the asignment between British government and Chinese government, people in Hong Kong had a fear of their future. There is a fall in 1991 and 1992. From then on, whenever there was a good relationship between the two governments, there was an increase of labour force and the number of the employed, and vice versa. Second, the other factor is economy . Whenever the economic situation was good, there was an increase of the labour force and the employed, and vise versa.
Thus we get a conclusion that the two factors, both political and economic, decide the two items, both the labour force and the employed. And from the graph we can see both the labour force and the employed will increase in the future.
英语图表作文: Write an essay based on the graph below
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