Task 1 表格
C4 Test1
The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.
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The given table gives information of the percentage of different types of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.
Overall, families with sole parent had the largest proportion of people living in poverty and families with aged couple had the smallest proportion. 11% of all households lived in poverty, which was over 1 million people.
Single families without children had the second highest proportion of people living in poverty, which was 19%, only 2% less than that of families with sole parent. The third highest percentage was found in families that were consisted of couples and children - 12% of these families lived in poverty. This category had the highest number of people living in poverty as well, up to 933,000 people.
7% of families that were couples with no children lived in poverty, but its number was close to that of families with sole parent, both over 200,000 people. Families that contained one single aged person had the second smallest proportion of people living in poverty, with a number at 54,000 people only. Families consisted of aged couple had even fewer, which were 48,000 people.
C5 Test4
The table below gives information about the underground railway systems in six cities.
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The table provided shows information of six different countries’ underground rail system, about their opening dates, kilometers of route and passengers per year. Overall, London’s underground system opened the earliest with highest kilometers of route, however the Tokyo underground transports the most people per year.
From the table, it is clear that London opened its underground system the earliest, as early as 1863. In comparison, Los Angeles opened its underground system the latest out of the 6 cities, only in 2001. When discussing the length of the routes however, London also takes the crown at 394 kilometers of underground railway opened. Kyoto in Japan’s underground system is the shortest, at only 11 km. There seems to be no correlation however, between the date of opening of the underground system, and the length of the underground system.
When talking about passengers transported, that seems to be completely different story. Tokyo, with a seemingly middle of the road length of underground route at 155 km, transports 1927 millions of passengers per year. That is almost twice as much as London, which boasts the longest railroad route. The least busy underground is in Kyoto, which only transports 45 million people per year.
One might conclude that no matter the opening date, bigger, busier cities like Tokyo and London tends to have a longer underground route and transports more passenger per year.
C6 Test2
The table below gives information about changes in modes of travel in England between 1985 and 2000.
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The given table tells us about the changes in the way people traveled in England between 1985 and 2000.
Overall, the total miles travelled by people increased by 2000. Almost all modes of travel saw an increase in miles except for bicycle and local bus.
In both 1985 and 2000, the most popular mode of travel was by car. The average distance travelled by car per person per year in 1985 was 3,199 miles, while that of 2000 was 4,806 miles. The second most popular mode of travel in 1985 was “other” modes of travel, while that of 2000 was the train. Traveling on foot and by train were relatively popular, with the average distance traveled per person being around 250 miles. Other modes of travel such as bicycle, long distance bus, and taxi were a lot less popular, all of which had a two-digit average distance traveled per person per year. This feature remained the same in 2000, except for long distance bus which saw an increase in miles in 2000. Miles travelled by local bus decreased by a half in 2000 to 274 miles. Miles travelled by train increased a bit in 2000 to 366 miles. In both years, other modes of travel were the second most popular modes of travel - 450 miles in 1985 and 585 miles in 2000.
C7 Test1
The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.
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The table compares 5 distinctive countries with regard to their citizens’ expenditure on Food/Drinks/Tobacco, Clothing/Footwear and Leisure/ Education in the year of 2002.
Overall, it can be seen that consumers in the five nations spent more on Food/Drinks/Tobacco than the other categories. It is also noticeable that Leisure/ Education took up the least proportion in 2002.
In terms of the expenditure on Food/Drinks/Tobacco, Turkish consumers ranked the first with a percentage of 32.14% in 2002, followed by individuals from Ireland (28.91%) and Spain (18.80%). By contrast, citizens in Italy and Sweden spent less money on this category, respectively 16.36% and 15.77%.
When it comes to Clothing/Footwear, the figure for Italy was 9%, significantly higher than its counterparts, which represented merely around 6%. Moreover, the spending on Leisure/ Education accounted for the least percentage in these categories. The largest amount, namely 4.35% could be found for Turkey, which was more than twice as high as the figure for Spain(1.98%). The rate of Sweden, Italy and Ireland lied separately in 3.22%, 3.20% and 2.21%.
C10 Test2
The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.
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The table illustrates the sales of coffee and bananas with Fairtrade label attached to them in 1999 and 2004 respectively in five European countries. In general, most of the countries experienced an increase in the sales, where the UK and Switzerland had the most remarkable rise among the listed countries.
For the sale of the coffee, the UK has the most rapid growth that increased from 1.5 million of euros in 1999 to 20 million of euro in 2004. Meanwhile, the sales in Sweden and Denmark only raised by 0.2 million and reach 1 million of euros and 2 million of euros in 2004 respectively, which is the least among these countries. In 2004, the sales in Switzerland had doubled its sales of 3 million of euros in the year 1999, and the sales in Belgium climbed from 1 million of euros in 1999 to 1.7 million of euros.
For the sales of the banana, Sweden and Denmark are the only two countries that has a decline in its sales. While the sales in Sweden dropped from 1.8 million of euros to 1 million of euros in 2004, the sales in Denmark decreased by 1.1 million of euros in 2004 compared with 1999. Besides, only 15 million of euros’ worth of bananas was bought in 1999 in Switzerland, however, the amount climbed up to 47 million of euros in 2004. The sales in Belgium and the UK in 2004 also grew for around 4 million of euros compared with the sales in 1999.
