一、引用图标内容时常用的过渡句型：
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、描写曲线走势的常用句型：曲线的走势有上升、下降、持平和有所波动等来表述。
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、 描述图标常用的概括性句型：这种句子通常用在文章开头结尾处。
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、 倍数与比例关系的常见表述：
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% 增长了23%
6. reduce by 18% 减少了18%
7. increased 54% over the last year 比去年增长了54%
8. 16% higher than 比……高出16%
9. more than doubled 超过2倍
10. triple 增至3倍 quadruple 翻两番
2016年考研英语(二)图表类作文常用表达
1. There have been dramatic changes with respect to 关于……已经发生了急剧的变化
2. Would reflect dramatic changes in 也许反映在……方面的急剧变化
3. To make great strides in 在……方面取得长足的进步
4. On the decline 下降，衰败
5. Profile 变量曲线
6. Per head 每人
7. Determine factors 决定性要素
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