[Sherif M] Writing Practice Test 154968

The given bar chart illustrates the amount of minutes for three different types of telephone calls occurred in Australia, betweenthe period of seven years, from 2001 and 2008. Overall, it is clearly shown that local calls are more popular and they have the highest share compared to the national, international and mobile calls.

In 2001, 72 billion local minutes were made,whereas only 38 billion national and international minutes occurred, there was,as low as, 2 billion minutes of phone calls to mobiles. The trend of local calls rose significantly every year till 2005, as it reached 90 billion minutes. However, a downward trend started to take place in 2006 till 2008, reaching 72 billion calls.

The national,international and mobile calls had the same upward trend during the given period. The national and international minutes increased steadily from 38 billion minutes in 2001 reaching 61 billion minutes in 2008. Despite the low number of mobile calls in 2001 of 2 billion minutes,there was a significant increase every year, and in 2005 ,12 billion mobile minute calls were placed, this number was doubled in 2006 reaching 23 billion minutes. This trend continued rising till it reached 46 billion minutes in 2008.

To sum up, there was a positive trend in national, international and mobile calls, throughout the whole period, while local calls took an upward trend from 2001 till 2005, then there was a downward trend till 2008.

Many people believe that there is no added value behind the government's expenditure on enhancing the technology to discover outer space. Personally, I agree that exploring the space is beneficial , from different aspects, to the society and to the country, as I will explain in this essay.

Firstly, perhaps one of the most significant outcomes from space exploration is developing the current means of communication of the country, this development could be made by sending advanced satellites to outer space. Consequently, Lots of data and information could be transferred in a few seconds,between people and between countries.

Secondly, this investment allocated for space discovery will ,perhaps, lead us to discover new sources of energy that could replace the current ones which are at risk to run out one day in the near future, such as fossil fuel and gas.

Finally, the investments on such technology might help in protecting the environment, for instance, through tracking the development and progress in climate change, all over the world, from space. In addition to that, it can save many people's life, through predicting any possible natural disaster ,such as, a hurricane or an earthquake, that might occur in the near future, through using advanced detection devices ,which are attached to the satellites that are orbiting around the earth.

In conclusion, I believe that the government has an essential role, in communicating to society, the benefits behind the investment on developing the technology for space exploration,now and for the future generations.