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 comparison where relevant. Write at least 150 words

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 comparison where relevant. 

Write at least 150 words
The figure illustrates the
proportion
of activities done by elderly people in their leisure time in U. S. from
1980s
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to
2010s
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the 2010s
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.
Overall
, among the five activities, the percentage of surfing the Internet and hiking increased
during
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over
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30 years,
while
three
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the three
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other activities fluctuated slightly. It is interesting to note that the percentage of elderly people
spent
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who spent
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time
by
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apply
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hiking raised sharply over the
periods
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period
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from around only 20% in
1980s
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the 1980s
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up to 80% in
2010s
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the 2010s
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. It was similar to the number of surfing the Internet which had a soft increase over 20 years (around 5% to 15%),
then
it jumped to 50% in the
next
10 years. Another thing to see is the
proportion
of reading and visiting theatre fluctuated every
one
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apply
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decade. It can be seen by the year of 1980s,
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reading's
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reading
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percentage was 30%, raised up to 40% in
1990s
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the 1990s
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, fell again to 20% in
2000s
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the 2000s
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, and at
last
climbed up to over 60% in
2010s
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the 2010s
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. The same
fluctuative
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fluctuating
proportion
occured
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occurred
in theatre
visit
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visits
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. The
last
thing to figure out is that the
proportion
of watching went up respectively from
1980s
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to
2000s
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the 2000s
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(60% - 70%);
however
, it dropped slowly to nearly 60% in
2010s
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the 2010s
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. (193 words)

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Vocabulary: Replace the words proportion with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 4 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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