Cambridge 6, Test 2, Writing Task 1
The table illustrates the differences of average distances in miles travelled per person between 1985 and 2000 in modes of travel.
There was an aggregate increase of all modes in the average distance travelled per person from 4,740 miles in 1985 to 6,475 miles in 2000. Whereas the change in other modes such as walking and car showed various patterns. Typically, the miles travelled by car skyrocketed to 4,806 miles each person, compared to 3,199 miles back to 1985.
The distance travelled by walking (255), bicycle (51) and local bus (429) in 1985 had all greatly reduced in 2000 to 237, 41 and 274 respectively. This result was expected as the use of cars became widespread throughout the third industrial revolution due to the advanced technology and cheaper costs.
However, the long distance bus presented surprising figures: the distances travelled climbed up from 54 to 124 during the 15 years from 1985 to 2000. The reason might be because of the massive increase in the petrol price, hindering people from travelling long distances by cars and switching to the more cost effective mode of long distance bus.
Also, train, taxi and all the other modes of travel in England all expressed an up-going trend that contrasts to the decrease in the non-mechanic modes of travel like walking and bicycle.
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1 comments:
Some very good summarisation except below two excerpts that are not pertinent to the requirement of Task one. In task one we have two jobs: 1- to produce summary of what are there and 2- to contrast and compare if required.
"This result was expected as the use of cars became widespread throughout the third industrial revolution due to the advanced technology and cheaper costs."
"The reason might be because of the massive increase in the petrol price, hindering people from travelling long distances by cars and switching to the more cost effective mode of long distance bus."
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