劍2 TEST4

The table below shows the figures for imprisonment in five countries between 1930 and 1980.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

范文：

The table shows that the figures for imprisonment in the five countries mentioned indicate no overall pattem of increase of decrease. In fact there is considerable fluctuation from country to country.

In Great British the numbei in prison have increased steadily from 30,000 in 1930 to 80,000 in 1980. On the other hand in Autralia, and particulary in New Zealand, the numbers fell markedly from 1930 to 1940. Since then they have increased gradually, apart from in 1980 when the numbers in prison in New Zealand fell by about 30,000 from the 1970 total. Canada is the only country in which the numbers in prison have decreased over the period 1930 to 1980, although there have been fluctuations in this trend. The figures for the United States indicate the greatest number of prisoners compared to the other four countries but population size needs to be taken into account in this analysis. The prison population in the United States increased rapidly from 1970 to 1980 and this must be a worrying trend.