Part B

48. Directions:

Write an essay based on the following chart. In your writing, you should

    1) interpret the chart, and

    2) give your comments.

You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)

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参考范文

This pie chart describes the proportion of the residents’ spending during the Spring Festival holiday in a certain city in China. The figure clearly shows that the residents spent the largest proportion of money on Spring Festival gifts during the holiday, 40% of the total expenses. Transport and dinners and parties each accounted for 20% of total spending, as did other expenses. It can be seen that during the Spring Festival, people attach great importance to buying New Year gifts.

This happens for the following reasons. First of all, the Spring Festival is an extremely important holiday for Chinese people. During the festival, people usually visit relatives and friends, and giving gifts is a way to express New Year wishes. This is very helpful for people to maintain interpersonal relationships. Besides giving gifts, people will take transportation to go home or go for a trip during the holiday, and having dinners or attending celebration parties with relatives and friends would be other ways to celebrate. So people would also spend a certain percentage of their money on transportation and parties.

To sum up, we can see that Chinese people always maintain a very traditional way of celebration during the festival­­—giving gifts and having dinners or holding parties. Anyway, enjoying the festive atmosphere is more important.

参考译文

这幅饼状图显示了我国某市居民春节假期的花销比例。图中清晰地展示了居民在春节期间购买春节礼物的花销占比最大，达到了总花销的40%。交通和聚会吃饭的花费各占了总花销的20%，在其他事物方面的花费也占到了20%。由此可见，在春节期间，人们对于购买新年礼物是非常重视的。

这种现象是由以下原因引起的。首先，春节对于中国人来说是一个无比重要的节日。在春节期间，人们会走亲访友，而赠送春节礼物则是表达新年祝福的一种方式。这非常有助于人们维持人际关系。除了赠送礼物之外，人们在春节期间都会乘坐各种交通工具回家过年或出门旅行，和亲戚朋友一起聚会吃饭是其他可选的庆祝方式。所以人们在交通和聚会上的花费也占据了一定的比例。

综上所述，我们可以看出，中国人在春节期间一直保持非常传统的庆祝方式——赠送礼物、聚餐和聚会。不管则样，享受节日的快乐氛围才是更重要的。

题目分析

    2015年大作文是以饼状图命题，展示我国某市居民春节假期的花销比例。本题其实就是在考查对数据统计的分析，要能揭露出数据想表达的意义是什么。建议考生要仔细思考数据的本质以及得出该数据的原因是什么。

文章大纲

第一段：简要描述图表的数据信息。

第二段：揭露图表数据背后的原因。

第三段：总结实际现象。