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The charts show the percentage of people working in different sectors in Towns A and B in two years, 1960 and 2010.

The charts show the percentage of people working in different sectors in Towns A and B in two years, 1960 and 2010.
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The pie charts compare the
proportion
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 of the working population in manufacturing,
sales
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 and services in 1960 and 2010 in two
towns
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.
Overall
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, the percentage of the workforce in manufacturing increased in both
towns
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 in 2010 compared with the 1960 figures.
By contrast
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, in
Towns
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 A and
B
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, the
proportion
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 of those working in the
sales
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 sector fell in 2010. In 1960, the figure for workers in manufacturing was 29% in
Town
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 A, almost three times higher than the figure in
Town
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B
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.
However
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, by 2010 the
proportion
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 of people in manufacturing had risen in
Towns
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 A and
B
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 to 64% and 25%, respectively.
On the other hand
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, the figures for the
sales
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 sector witnessed a decline. In
Town
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 A, the
proportion
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 of the workforce in
sales
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 in 1960 was 41% and
this
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 fell by over half to 20% in 2010. In
Town
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B
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, the figure decreased from 70% in 1960 to 53% in 2010. The percentage of workers in the services sector almost halved in
Town
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 A to 16% in 2010,
whereas
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 in
Town
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B
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 it rose slightly from 20% in 1960 to 22% in 2010.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words proportion, sales, towns, b, town with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "compare" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 5 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "fell" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • dominant sector
  • proportion
  • employment sectors
  • distribution
  • shifts
  • trends
  • growth
  • decline
  • main sector
  • 50-year period
  • comparison focus
  • analyze
  • summarize
  • changes
  • increase
  • decrease
  • evolution
  • observed
  • highlight
  • underlie
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