Pie chart — Books sold by one bookseller, 1972 and 2012
📄 Bài mẫu band 8–9
| Introduction | Paraphrase: tỷ trọng 5 loại sách bán ra của một hiệu sách năm 1972 và 2012. |
| Overview | Overall: sách thiếu nhi thay chỗ tiểu thuyết để trở thành loại bán chạy nhất, và cơ cấu doanh số năm sau dàn đều hơn năm trước. Không số liệu. |
| Body 1 | Tiểu thuyết 38% → 16% (mất hơn một nửa); sách thiếu nhi 14% → 33%, vươn lên dẫn đầu. |
| Body 2 | Tiểu sử 22% → 27%; sách tra cứu 8% → 12%; du lịch 18% → 12%, giảm một phần ba. |
The two pie charts compare the proportion of five categories of books sold by one bookseller in 1972 and in 2012.
Overall, the shop's sales profile was transformed over the four decades: fiction was displaced by children's books as the best-selling category, and the 2012 figures show a more even spread across the five categories than those of 1972.
Fiction dominated the earlier year, accounting for 38% of all books sold, more than twice the share of children's titles at 14%. By 2012 the two had effectively exchanged places. Fiction had fallen to just 16% of sales, losing well over half of its former share, while children's books had risen to 33%, making them the single largest category and the strongest performer in the chart.
Changes among the remaining categories were smaller but consistent. Biographies rose from 22% to 27%, keeping their position as the second best-selling category in 1972 and taking it again in 2012. Reference works also gained, from 8% to 12%, though they remained the smallest category in both years alongside travel writing, which slipped from 18% to 12% — a fall of a third in proportional terms.
| was displaced by | bị thay chỗ bởi |
| the best-selling category | hạng mục bán chạy nhất |
| a more even spread | sự phân bổ đều hơn |
| accounting for | chiếm tỷ trọng |
| slipped | tụt xuống |
| in proportional terms | xét theo tỷ lệ |