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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 24th December
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below indicates the percentage of women smokers in Asia and Europe from 1950 to 2000.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown in the graph.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The graph compares the percentage of women smokers in Asia and Europe in the latter half of the 20th century.
It is crystal clear that from 1950 to 2000 the percentage of women smokers in Asia kept increasing while in Europe first rose and then fell.
In the 50’s the percentages of women smokers in Asia and Europe were about the same, with Europe higher of 2%. From then on, women smokers of both continents began to rise, but the rate of increase in Europe was much bigger than Asia. In the ten years from 1960 to 1970 in Europe, women smokers doubled, from 10% to 20%, while in Asia, there was only a rise by 3%.
However, since the 70s, things have changed dramatically. In the following thirty years, the percentage of women smokers in Asia never stopped to grow while that in Europe dropped sharply. In 2000, Asian women smokers surpassed European women smokers by 1%. It is the first time for the former to have caught up with the latter in the past 50 years.
