英语五段作文法范文
I. 解释结构：
（1）解释原因 Task 1: You are allowed 40 minutes to write an essay about 250 words on the following topic.
Since 1980, divorce rate in China has increased rapidly as shown in the following graph. What are the causes for it?（图略）
Divorce in China
In recent years China has experienced a dramatic increase in the divorce rate. According to the chart given, during the last decade, the divorce rate in big cities has increased as much as it had in the entire previous thirty years. In 1960 there were only one divorced person for every 100 married people, and thirty years later the rate was
2.9 percent. But by 2000 the rate jumped to 5.8 percent.（第一段是通过对图表的描写把近十年来离婚率大幅上升的现象表现出来。）The upward trend in divorce 对造成离婚率上升总的概括，然后用three important changes交代了随后的正文发展方向）
In the past the act of divorce itself was considered a social stigma. Even if a couple had already lived separately, they dared not to seek divorce. Now that divorce has become socially acceptable, you won’t be looked down upon just because you are a divorced person.（原因1：人们对离婚观念的转变） （主题句）Millions of farmers floods into cities to seek jobs, and thousands of city dwellers go abroad for study or work. The unprecedented social mobility has placed severe strains on married couples, not only in terms of geographic separation, but also psychological change.（原因2：民工潮和出国热的社会流动对家庭的压力） In the past,suing for a divorce was the most difficult thing ever imagined,you wouldn’t succeed without years of efforts. Now the revised divorce law makes legal separation easy for most people to obtain. People, for example, are allowed to get divorce merely for lover’s sake. Thus the last barrier to divorce is removed.（原因3：新的婚姻法简便了离婚手续）
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