2011.04.02雅思写作A类考试讲解
                                     --环球教育 徐俏雯

【图表作文题目】Task 1
The chart below gives information about the daily number of visitors entering a museum during summer and winter in 2003.
【题目翻译】
以下图表给出的信息是关于在2003年游客每天去博物馆的数量，时间是比较winter和summer的不同。
【图表题型】
本图表属于曲线图（Line Graph）
【图表作文分析】
图表作文考的是经典的曲线图，曲线图需注意分析曲线的趋势，不能单纯的只体现数据。结合此次图表题的内容是要分析两条曲线的变化情况，它们分别代表在summer和winter参观museum的人数变化。要找出两条线的高低点，转折点和上升与下降趋势的对比。
【议论文题目】Task 2
Many people think cheap air travel should be encouraged because it gives ordinary people freedom to travel further. However, others think this leads to environmental problem, so air travel should be more expensive in order to discourage people from having it. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
【题目翻译】
很多人认为我们应当鼓励廉价的飞机旅行，因为它给了普通人远行的自由。然而，另外一些人则认为这会导致环境问题，因此飞机旅行应当更加昂贵，以便减少人们的使用。谈论双方观点以及给出你自己的观点。

【话题分类与题型】
本话题属环保和科技类话题。

【话题评价】
以往的雅思考试也曾考过此类话题，也就是旧题重现。 本题并非简单谈论科技话题（廉价飞机），还和环保话题（飞机带来的环境问题）相结合，所以考生们平时要注意这种混合话题的复习，和旧题型的重温。另外，碰到旧题重现的时候，需注意题目的侧重点不同。
【结构与思路】
文章要求discuss both views and give your own opinion，建议采用对称式写法。可以分为四段，开头段提出争议问题，先不给出观点；第二段分析benefit；第三段分析drawback； 最后结尾提出自己的观点。分析过程要注意cheap 和 expensive 飞机旅行的差异。
【背景内容】
随着科技日新月异，乘飞机旅行已经不是新鲜事；并且飞机票价越来越低廉，人们可供选取的出门途径又增加的有力的一项。乘坐飞机的好处有很多，如节省时间、安全系数较高、舒适度比乘坐普通的汽车或者火车要高、可以享受一流的服务、还可以欣赏美丽的高空风景等等。但相对而言，廉价的飞机票价会促使越来越多的人们选择乘坐飞机出行，这会带来燃料的消耗和空气污染。但是否提高飞机票价就可以避免产生这样的环境问题呢？还是应该从开发新燃料和倡导保护环境的方法入手？像现在提出的实用环保飞机……
【类似考题】
Now, air travel has become much cheaper than in the past. Some people say that is a positive development, some people disagree with this. What do you think? Give your reasons.
【参考范文】（此参考范文采用五段式结构）
Nowadays, people can choose to travel by bus, train, ship, and airplane. In the past, traveling by air was too expensive to be popular, but things are different now: air travel has become much cheaper. Therefore, I argue that this is definitely a positive development.
Firstly, airplane travels extremely fast, thus it saves us a lot of time. We know that in the past, traveling from Britain to America by ship would take at least a month, but now it only needs five to eight hours. One can start out from Britain in the morning and join friends in the States for dinner! In fact, thanks to the fast speed of airplane, many lives have been saved.
Secondly, traveling by air is safer than by any other means of transport. There are car crashes happening here and there on highways, taking away thousands of lives every day. People may think that train and ship are much safer than airplane, but statistics show that the rate of an airplane crash is far lower than these two means of transport. I have traveled by air dozens of times and an quite confident about the safety of air traveling.
Sure enough, apart from some worries about the safety of airplane, people also worried about that due to he cheaper prices of air tickets, there will be more and more people choosing to travel by air, thus resulting in huge consumption of fuel and severe air pollution. This is indeed a problem worth our deep consideration. However, I firmly believe that with the development of science and technology, new types of fuel will definitely be found and then, air travel will pose no threat at all to the environment.
From the foregoing discussion, we can see that air travel becoming cheaper and cheaper is absolutely not a bad thing. (此文章来自杨凡的《雅思写作官方题库范文大全》，仅做参考范文)