The pie charts give information about the water used for residential, industrial and agricultural purposes in San Diego County, California, and the world as a whole.

It is noticeable that more water is consumed by homes than by industry or agriculture in the two American regions.

 By contrast, agriculture accounts for the vast majority of water used worldwide.

In San Diego County and California State, residential water consumption accounts for 60% and 39% of total water usage.

By contrast, a mere 8% of the water used globally goes to homes.

The opposite trend can be seen when we look at water consumption for agriculture.

This accounts for a massive 69% of global water use, but only 17% and 28% of water usage in San Diego and California respectively.

Such dramatic differences are not seen when we compare the figures for industrial water use.

The same proportion of water (23%) is used by industry in San Diego and worldwide, while the figure for California is 10% higher, at 33%.

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The pie charts compare the proportions of people falling into three distinct age groups in Yemen and Italy in two different years.

It is clear that Italy had the older population in the year 2000, and that the same is predicted for the year 2050.

The populations of both countries are expected to age over the fifty-year period.

In the year 2000, just over half of the population of Yemen was aged 14 or under, while most Italians (61.6%) fell into the 15 to 59 age group, and only 14.3% were children under 15 years of age.

People aged 60 or over accounted for almost a quarter of the Italian population, but only 3.6% of the inhabitants of Yemen.

By 2050, the proportion of children under 15 is predicted to drop in both countries, most noticeably in Yemen where the figure is expected to fall by 13.1%.

On the other hand, the figures for elderly people are expected to rise, by 2.1% in
Yemen and a massive 18.2% in Italy.

Finally, it is anticipated that the 15 to 59 age group will grow by around 10% in Yemen, but shrink by around 15% in Italy.

Sample #39

Many people think that nowadays people are being subjected to more and more pressure in their work, and thus are having less and less time to relax. What is your opinion?

model answer:

In modern society, especially in big cities, undoubtedly hard work has become a very important feature of ordinary people’s everyday life.

It seems that many people are under the impression that their work is becoming more pressing and urgent, and thus they sacrifice more and more leisure time.

In the first place, with the rapid development of science and technology, work today is more demanding than it used to be.

For example, college graduates nowadays have to master English, computer science and driving skills before they can find decent jobs.

People have to spend more time acquiring new techniques and skills.

And their spare time tends to be fully occupied, not with leisure pursuit, but with work-related pursuits.

In the second place, competition is becoming more intense.

Many people feel anxious that they may be “laid-off” if they can’t work as hard as others.

And they also feel at a disadvantage before new graduates.

Therefore, it is understandable that people keep themselves involved in intensely hard work in order to preserve their positions.

In my opinion, the worst aspect of this phenomenon is that the huge pressure of work will gradually affect people’s mental health.

Excessively hard work means that people can never get rid of the fatigue of their work, even in their leisure time.

This means that they can not enjoy a normal life.

In a word, in modern society overwork is stealing our leisure time.

however, I believe this problem will be settled eventually with the development of science and technology.