圖表作文是BEC考試中常出的題型。對于如何描述圖表，很多學習常感到困難。下面是一些常用的描述圖表的句型，供大家參考。
　　1. At a slower rate...
　　2. It reflects the great differences that exist between...
　　3. These figures were overwhelmingly greater than the corresponding figure of...
　　4. It can be seen from the chart that significantly...~er(比較級)...than...
　　5. In all locations, A out numbered B...
　　6. These two pie charts (餅狀圖) show the differences between two groups of...
　　7. The first point to note is the huge increase (in the number of)...
　　8. A is more than... times (bigger) than B
　　9. The biggest loss was to A, which decreased from... to... of the whole.
　　10. The biggest gains (in graduate numbers) were made by A which, as a group, have increased by over...
　　11. To sum up, ...
　　12. This bar chart displays the numbers of...
　　13. The chart reflects several trends.
　　14. But... we see a different trend emerging.
　　15. When we compare..., we see...
　　16. This suggests increased educational opportunities for women in higher education.
　　17. According to the graph, ...
　　18. The proportion of...
　　19. There was a slight recovery...
　　20. ... has dropped dramatically
　　21. The general trend appears to be increases.
　　22. There were approximately...
　　23. ... had jumped four fold to...
　　24. ... rose sharply from... to...
　　25. Remained constant at...
　　26. The overall trend for...
　　27. The graph shows the percentage of...
　　28. We can see that... swell during the... hours, peaking at... am.
　　29. Although the raw data does not provide an explanation for these trends
　　30. When coupled with the graphic information, leads to some possible conclusions...?
　　31. This may serve to explain, at least in part, the mirror image of the two lines.
　　32. Perhaps the most telling feature of the chart is the dominance of...
　　33. The graph relates the percentage of...
　　34. Rise gradually to about 10%.
　　35. After a slight drop around lunch time, audiences begin a fairly steady climb towards the peak viewer ship in the hours from 6pm to 10pm at some 40-45%.
　　36. A sharp decline follows to...
　　37. Listenership drops steadily from this peak, crossing the line for television views at around 2pm.
　　38. It continues to decline throughout the evening until reaching a low point at 2am.
　　39. The graph proves the dominance of...
　　40. During the peak period of...
　　41. The diagram unfolds a clear comparison between...
　　42. The United States as a whole in four aspects, namely, ...
　　43. Obviously, in every aspect...
　　44. ... had a much higher growth rate than... as a whole during that period.
　　45. The number of... increased by %.
　　46. The most rapid increase of all the four aspects... As to the other three, though the growth rates were not so high, they were indeed remarkable and impressive.
　　47. The number of... dropped by %.
　　48. From the diagram it can be safely concluded that (in the years)...
　　49. There were many significant changes (in modes of transport)...
　　50. The following paragraphs will identify and discuss the trends in the accompanying graph.
　　51. A very noticeable trend was the steady decrease in...
　　52. During the same period, there was a large increase...
　　53. This increased again...