The chart below shows the total number of hours per month from 1980 to 2015 that people in the USA used modern technology divided into four categories. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows the total number of hours per month from 1980 to 2015 that people in the USA used modern technology divided into four categories. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The given chart illustrates how many
hours
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per month
did
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people
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in the United States of America
spend
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four
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on four
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different categories of electronic devices between 1980 and 2015.
Overall
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, it is clearly seen that
people
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used to listen to
a
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the
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radio
more
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for more
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than 300
hours
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monthly from 1980 to 1990,
while
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people
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spent many
hours
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to use
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using
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their computers and smartphones after 2010. In detail, the figure for
a
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television gradually increased until 2010 from nearly 50
hours
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to 200
hours
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despite there was a slight decrease of 10
hours
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from 2015.
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Computer
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was not popular among
people
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in the past. Until 1900, the figure for a
computer
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stayed constant,
in contrast
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, there was a slight increase of 30
hours
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in 1995.
In addition
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, it is noteworthy that
hours
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for using a
computer
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increased rapidly, and it reached
to
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more than 350
hours
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in 2010. The largest number of
hours
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per month was a
computer
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both in 2010 and in 2015. Turning to the figure for
a
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radio, there was a sudden reduction from 1990
,
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and kept decreasing until 2015, which is indicated the lowest number of
hours
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in 2015 among different four categories. Nearly none of
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people
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the people
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in the past between 1985 and 2000 used smartphones.
However
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, after 2000,
people
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started to
using
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use
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smartphones, and it began with 50
hours
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per month.
Following
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this
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, it grew
up
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abruptly over a
15-years
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period, eventually
reached at
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reaching
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350
hours
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monthly.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words hours, people, computer with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "reached" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "slight" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • modern technology
  • significant increase
  • notable milestone
  • growth rate
  • usage patterns
  • comparative analysis
  • fluctuations
  • exponential growth
  • steady rise
  • decline
  • peak
  • trend
  • data analysis
  • overall trend
  • compared to
  • demonstrate
  • illustrate
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