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期末复习之任务型阅读15篇 (江苏名校期末真题) （22-23八年级下·江苏泰州·期末）任务型阅读 Understanding Graphics（图表） When we are reading, we often see one or two graphics in a text. Have you ever thought about these questions: Why are they there? What information do they give? Do they help with our reading and understanding? Graphics are things like pictures, maps, charts and tables. They give information to readers. Very often, we can see different kinds of graphics in books, magazines and newspapers. Writers use graphics to attract (吸引) the readers and give them some special information. Graphics help to understand the given information in a text. And graphics put the information in an order so that it’s easy to understand when we take a quick look. It is not always true that a picture means more than a thousand words. But many things are easier to show than to tell and they may also be easier to understand. Graphics are just the right things that give a lot of information but it doesn’t take much time to read and understand. The right way to read and understand a graphic is to look at the picture and the words together. In a graphic, only a few words are used to explain what the picture shows you. Sometimes, numbers and percentages (百分比) are also given to go well with the words to explain things. Now look at the graphic on the right. It is how a writer used a graphic to show the number of hours spent sleeping by British teenagers each day. Can you understand it? Understanding Graphics Introduction We often see graphics while 1 . Explanation Readers get information through graphics 2 pictures, maps, charts and tables. Graphics are used to get the readers’ 3 and give information. Graphics are 4 for readers to understand the information in a text. Even if we take a quick look, we can understand the graphics 5 . Advantages Sometimes a picture can express more 6 than a thousand words. Compared with words, graphics can give more information but take 7 time. W