下面的填空練習是專門針對A類圖表作文介詞運用的練習The chart shows student expenditure over a three-year period in the United Kingdom.
The chart shows the changes which took place (1) .......... student spending in the United Kingdom (2) ............... the three-year period from 1996 to 1999.
Students spent 3% less on accommodation, which fell (3) ............... 23% (4) ............... 20% of total expenditure, and there was a 2% decrease (5) ............... spending on food, bills and household goods, which fell from 20% to 18%. At the same time course expenditure went down (6) ............... 3% from 10% to 7%. Children, who constituted 1% (7) ............... students' expenditure in 1996, are not represented in 1999.
On the other hand, there was a 5% growth (8)............... spending on entertainment, which stood (9)............... 26% of total expenditure in 1996 but rose (10) ............... 31% in 1999. Spending on other non-essential items and credit repayments grew (11)............... 4% to make (12) ............... 16% of total expenditure. Spending on essential travel went up (13) ............... 3% while non-essential travel underwent a 1% fall.
Overall, with the exception of expenditure (14) ............... travel, the most significant general change was a shift (15) ............... spending on essential items (16) ............... spending on non-essential items.
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下面的練習適合程度比較高的學員Write a suitable sentence to follow each connective.1. People do not usually find it easy to learn to write in a foreign language.Consequently,2. People do not usually find it easy to learn to write in a foreign language.On the contrary,3. People do not usually find it easy to learn to write in a foreign language.Moreover,4. People do not usually find it easy to learn to write in a foreign language.In contrast,5. People do not usually find it easy to learn to write in a foreign language.Nevertheless,Comments on Exercise 4The following sentences are suggestions; there are many possible alternatives:1 ... writing is normally the least developed of the four main language skills.2 ... they normally find it by far the most difficult of the language skills.3 ... a similar degree of difficulty is frequently encountered with the skill of reading.4 ... writing in their first language may present them with no problems at all.5 ... they can normally learn to write comprehensibly if enough time and effort are given to practice.