Line graph — Items borrowed from public libraries in the UK, 1995–2005
📄 Bài mẫu band 8–9
| Introduction | Paraphrase: biểu đồ số lượt mượn ba loại ấn phẩm tại thư viện công cộng Anh, 1995–2005. |
| Overview | Overall: cả hai loại sách đều giảm liên tục (hư cấu giảm mạnh nhất về số tuyệt đối nhưng vẫn dẫn đầu); băng đĩa nghe-nhìn tăng hơn gấp ba, đến 2005 gần đuổi kịp sách phi hư cấu. |
| Body 1 | Sách: hư cấu 385 triệu → 275 triệu (mất ~110 triệu nhưng luôn cao nhất); phi hư cấu 215 → 155 triệu, giảm chậm và đều. |
| Body 2 | Nghe-nhìn: 45 → 160 triệu, tăng nhanh dần; khoảng cách với phi hư cấu từ 170 triệu (1995) co lại còn ~5 triệu (2005) — sắp giao cắt. |
The line graph shows how many items of three kinds — fiction books, non-fiction books, and audio and video materials — were borrowed from UK public libraries between 1995 and 2005.
Overall, borrowing of both categories of books fell steadily across the decade, whereas loans of audio and video items more than tripled. By 2005 this fast-growing category had almost caught up with non-fiction books, although fiction remained comfortably the most borrowed type throughout.
Fiction was by far the most popular category in 1995, at around 385 million items a year. From that high point it declined continuously, losing roughly 20 million loans every two years to finish at about 275 million in 2005. Non-fiction followed the same downward path but more gently, easing from around 215 million to 155 million over the same period.
Audio and video materials told the opposite story. Starting from just 45 million loans in 1995 — barely a fifth of the non-fiction figure — they rose consistently, passing 90 million in 1999 and reaching about 160 million by 2005. As a result, the gap between audio-visual items and non-fiction books narrowed dramatically, from about 170 million loans at the start of the period to only a few million at its end, leaving the two categories on the point of crossing.
| fell steadily | giảm đều |
| more than tripled | tăng hơn gấp ba |
| almost caught up with | gần đuổi kịp |
| declined continuously | giảm liên tục |
| easing from | hạ nhẹ từ |
| rose consistently | tăng bền bỉ |
| narrowed dramatically | thu hẹp mạnh |
| on the point of crossing | sắp giao cắt |