【正确答案】The statistics offered by the chart above illustrate the changes of the unemployment rate in France and America. It is not hard to see that the unemployment in France had been dramatically increasing from 4% in 1998 to 7.3% in 2009, while the number in America just witnessed obvious decrease: from 9% in 1998 to 5.2% in 2009. There are two factors that can account for the phenomena. The fist important factor is the slow economic development and the decrease of job opportunities, which explains the sharp increase in the unemployment rate in France. Relatively speaking, the economic development is rather better in America, which brings to light the fact that the unemployment rate decreased steadily. So what will be the possible tendency of the situation reflected by the chart? It is not too much to say that the unemployment rate may continue to decline in America but increase in France in the future.