WRITING TASK 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The graph below gives information about the price of bananas in four countries between 1994 and 2004.
You should write at least 150 words.
Sample: The given line graph compares how much bananas cost in 4 different countries: Japan, France, Germany, and the USA from 1994 to 2004.
Overall, the prices of bananas were the highest in Japan and the lowest in America. Furthermore,
except for the USA, bananas’ costs in all the countries fluctuated wildly over the ten-year period, with France and Germany following a relatively similar trend.
Regarding Japan, starting at $1.80/kg in 1994, the price
hit a peak of $2.80 in the next year, before dropping to $2.0 in 1996. From this year onwards to 2000, bananas’ cost oscillated between $1.90 and $2.20 and hit a bottom of around $1.50 in 2001. This was followed by a rebound to $2.10 one year later, when the cost rose exponentially to $2.50 at the end of the period. The price of bananas in America remained stable at around $1.10 throughout the ten years after an increase from $0.70 in 1994.
Both France and Germany started at $1.60 and $1.40, respectively, but while France’s price stabilized until 1997, Germany’s cost saw a plunge to $1.20 in 1996. From 1997 to 2004, the two countries’ costs experienced dramatic fluctuations, especially in France, where the price was more expensive than Japan in 2001 at $1.60 and the lowest of all countries in 2003 at $1.00. However, in the end, bananas cost roughly the same as they did 10 years prior in both countries.
(237 words)
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