The graph below gives information about car ownership in Britain from 1971 to 2007.
The line graph below represents the change in how many
proportion
of cars owned in the UK between 1970 and 2007.
Overall
, more and more people
tended to have at least one
car
, and the volume of car
ownership witnessed an upward trend, while
the percentage of people
who did not have any vehicles displayed a dramatic decline during the given years.
To be specific, people
who got only one
car
started at approximately 45 proportion
; however
, it stood at the second highest initially
, it still maintained the same high-level proportion
till 2007. At the same time, two-car
ownership rocketed from around 8 to 25 proportion
, overtaking no-car
people
, and being the fastest-growing among four.
On the other hand
, in comparison with one
and two car
owners
, three cars or above owners
grew slowly, going up by one
to five proportion
for these 26 years. Meanwhile, regarding no car
owners
, the percentage stood at 48 in 1970 and then
kept declining to 25, being surpassed by the percentage of one
car
owner and two car
owners
in 1975 and 2003, respectively.Submitted by Chloe on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words proportion, people, one, car, owners with synonyms.
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