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The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The line graph illustrates how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010.
Overall
, an upward trend was experienced by watching tv, hiking, reading and surfing the internet,
while
 the Theater showed a downward trend. Almost most of the activities had some fluctuations except for hiking. In
1980s
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,
popularity
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 of reading increased to about 10%. But from
1990s
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, it went down even lower than it was before. Anyway, it became trendy again with its rapid jump in 2000. Hiking was slowly and steadily gaining
its
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demand from
1980s
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,
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 to about 60%. Theatres were the only activity, losing
its
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 fame in
1980s
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, but
still
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it
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started gaining it again from
1990s
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 to
2000s
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 and slowly moving up after. TV has been always
on
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 one of the highest positions, nearly 60% of people in
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, spent their spare time watching
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TV and it reached
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around 70% two decades later. But its popularity dropped and is slowly moving down since the internet became trendy in
2000s
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. Having lower than 10%
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 popularity among the elderly till
2000s
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 the level of people preferring the way of spending their free time rapidly increased in
2000s
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 and is trending to move higher so it pretends to have one of the highest or even the highest rank among all activities listed before.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase your introduction. Words match: 82%.
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Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "rapid" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "slowly" was used 3 times.
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