GRE写作正文的常见句型整理

　　1.Although the popular belief is that…, a current (new / recent) study (survey / poll / investigation) indicates (shows / demonstrates) that…

　　2.Common sense tells us that…

　　3.The increase (change / failure / success) in… mainly (largely / partly) results from (arises from / is because of)…

　　4.The increase (change / failure /success) in … is due to (owing to / attributable to) the fact that…

　　5.Many people would claim that…

　　6.One may attribute (ascribe / owe) the increase (decrease / change) to …, but … is not by itself an adequate explanation.

　　7.One of the reasons given for … is that…

　　8.What is also worth noticing is that…

　　9.There are many (different / several / a number of / a variety of) causes (reasons) for this dramatic (marked / significant) growth (change /decline / increase) in .. First,… Second,… Finally,…

　　10.There is no evidence to suggest that…

　　11.Why are (is / do / did) …? For one thing, … For another, …

　　12.Another reason why I dispute the above statement is that…

　　13.It gives rise to (lead to / bring / create) a host of problems (consequences).

　　14.There are numerous reasons why …, and I shall here explore only a few of the most important ones.

　　15.It will exert (have / produce) profound (far-reaching / remarkable / considerable / beneficial / favorable / undesirable / disastrous) effect (influence) on…

　　16.A multitude of factors could account for (contribute to / lead to / result in / influence) the change (increase / decrease / success/ failure / development) in…

　　17.In 1999, it increased (rose / jumped / shot up) from 5 to 10 percent of the total (to 15 percent / by 15 percent).

　　18.By comparison with 1998, it decreased (dropped / fell) from 10 to 5 percent (to 15 percent / by 15 percent).

　　19.It account for 15 percent of the total.

　　20.There were 100 traffic accidents in April, and increase of 5 percent in a five-month period.

　　21.By 1999, only (less than / more than / almost / about / over / as many as) three quarters (40 percent of / one out of five / one in four) college population (graduates / housewives) as against (as compared with) last year (1998) preferred to (liked)…