The following curved chart show the situation concerning the costs of videos sales and rentals trade in EU and US from 1992 to 2000. The abscissa of the chart represents the value of each element, and the ordinate figures the time during 8 years.
In rental trade, there are dramatically different between the situation of US and EU. in 1992, there are almost$6000 profits in US. However, the trade in EU only generalized $2500 at the same time. Then the trend kept climbing in following year though there were still some little drops in US, while EU got the decrease from $ 2500 to $1500.
Regarding the situation of sales trade, there were very close figures in 1992 respectively $2000 in US and $1800 in EU. Then the data in US had ascended without any fall in the period. Simultaneously, after a series fluctuations, the data in EU dropped to $1000 in 2000.
From the chart, the value about videos sales and rental in US is much than EU. Rentals are popular in US during this stage, while sales were developing very fast. Both rental and sales in EU kept drop from 1992 to 2000.
109 TASK 1Life-span is known as a matter of great concern for the general public in our society from ancient time to now. According to the above table we can obtain some information about the life-span from 1911 to 2001 in the UK.
In 1911, only 73 men and 100 women were 100 or more 100 years old. However, in 1941, the number of people who can reach to 100 years old increased to 449 that includes 132 males and 317 females. Then, the number reached to 2332 in 1971 which contains 287 males and 2035 females. In 2001, the number of males is about 536 while approximately 4085 are females Another important phenomenon is that in 2001 the number of females increased 40 times than the males' number in 1911 while males only went up about 7 times .
Judging by the figures, we are fully justified in declaring that with the development of the science and technology, the people's life-span is increasing slowly and most of them are women.
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