一、引用圖標內容時常用的過渡句型：
1. As is revealed in the graph, …
2. As the survey results show, …
3. As we could find out later in this unit, his plan was not quite as he had expected.
4. This table provides several important points of comparison between…
二、描寫曲線走勢的常用句型：曲線的走勢有上升、下降、持平和有所波動等來表述。
1. The output rose rapidly till it reached … in 2000. Since then, though the growth continued, the momentum has slackened off.
2. Before 1970 the birth rate remained level. Then in 1970 it fell till it reached 30 per thousand.
3. The birth rate in this region rocketed to the highest peak in 1963.
4. Although prices fluctuated between 1999-2010, overall the trend was downward.
5. The economy went up and down in a zigzag way.
6. After a steady decline for a whole decade, the country’s fertility rate shows signs of leveling off.
三、 描述圖標常用的概括性句型：這種句子通常用在文章開頭結尾處。
1. This table provides several interesting points of comparison between A and B.
2. The two graphs depict the same thing seen in two different ways. The first diagram simply records… The second graph throws a new light on…
3. The key findings taken from the surveys are as follows…
4. If drivers continue to drive more carefully and further strengthen their sense of safety, the rate of accidents can be expected to decline even more dramatically in the year 1991.
四、 倍數與比例關系的常見表述：
1. 3 times as large as 比……大2倍(是……的3倍)
2. 3 times the size of 是……3倍大(比……大2倍)
3. 17 times that of 是……的17倍(比……多16倍)
4. twice as much as 是……的2倍
5. go up by 23% 增長了23%
6. reduce by 18% 減少了18%
7. increased 54% over the last year 比去年增長了54%
8. 16% higher than 比……高出16%
9. more than doubled 超過2倍
10. triple 增至3倍 quadruple 翻兩番
2016年考研英語(二)圖表類作文常用表達
1. There have been dramatic changes with respect to 關于……已經發生了急劇的變化
2. Would reflect dramatic changes in 也許反映在……方面的急劇變化
3. To make great strides in 在……方面取得長足的進步
4. On the decline 下降，衰敗
5. Profile 變量曲線
6. Per head 每人
7. Determine factors 決定性要素
8. Of the utmost importance 最重要的
9. To make good use of 很好的加以利用
10. To ascend 增加，上升