The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between
1980 and 2010.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Answer
The line graph below illustrates the activities elderly Americans spend spent doing in their free time from 1980 to 2010.
Overall, elderly Americans spend their free time doing different activities, among these hiking shows to be an activity which gained gaining popularity and TV watching TV seems to be the most popular leisure activity among the elderly in the United States.
Firstly, between the years of 1980 through 1990, most of the activities have gained popularity among the elderly except for the activity of going to the theatre watching Theatre which experienced a decline from 50% to 30%. Secondly, In in 1990 and 2000, a significant decrease of 20% (지금은 수학시간이 아니기 때문에 뺄셈을 하실 필요가 없지만, 나는 굳이 빼야겠다! 싶으면 퍼센트포인트를 활용해주셔야 합니다. 이에 대해서는 총평에서 말씀드릴게요.) is shown in the activity reading, while theatre has gained slight popularity of 10% (얘도 마찬가지입니다.), other categories showed a steady increase. Lastly, from the years 2000 to 2010 the activity of reading and surfing the internet (인터넷은 고유명사이므로, 대문자 시작으로 보시면 됩니다. 극히 예외적인 경우가 있긴 하지만, 거기까지 들어갈 필요는 없고요.) experienced a sharp increase of 40% and almost 35% respectively. Due to the popularity of both of these activities, TV watching has decreased by almost 5%. While Theatre and Hiking, while the rate of theatre and hiking increased steadily.
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총평: (6/6/6/7) 6.5
일단 저한테 글을 쓰라고 하면 저는 뺄셈 자체를 안 합니다. 수학시간이 아니기 때문이죠. 그러나 많은 수험생들이 뺄셈에 집착하는 경향이 있는데, 이 학생들을 위해 따로 정리해놓은 링크가 있으니까, 나는 굳이빼야겠다 싶으시면 꼭 링크를 읽고 반영해주세요~
수고하셨습니다 :)
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