2012年12月英语四级作文真题:Education pays

作者能较熟练地使用高级词汇，但词汇积累还有很大进步空间；采用了适当的衔接手法，层次清晰；作者句法知识扎实，可适当增加从句的使用。

The picture illustrates the theme of education pays. In the bar chart on the left, it expresses the unemployment rate with the different degree in 2011 while the bar chart on the right shows the median weekly earnings in 2011 towards the same group. There is a gradual decrease about the unemployment rate with the degree increasing. Those who are having less than high school diploma has the maximum unemployment rate while the groups of people who have doctoral degree and professional degree had the nearly rate which is minimum. The average of unemployment rate is 7.6 percentage and those who have some college or no degree, high school diploma and less than high school diploma, their unemployment rate is far more than the average percentage. Turing to the median weekly earnings, it's apparent from the right bar chart that the earnings increase with the education pays adding. The average of median weekly earnings is 797 dollars. Those who have bachelor's degree and even more superior degree than it make earnings more than average earnings. What is peculiar is that people have professional degree earn 1665 dollars which are more than people who have doctoral degree possess earnings. It's no denying that the group of people having less than high school diploma make minimum earnings. On the whole, with the education pays increasing, the unemployment rate is decreasing while the median weekly earnings are increasing, which is proved that education pays have a influence on them.