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The charts below show local government expenditure in 2010 and 2015.

The charts below show local government expenditure in 2010 and 2015.
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This
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 two pie chart provides information to compare the consumption in the local government among nine
categories
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 in 2010 and 2015. Over the
five-years
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five-year
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 period, there were significant changes in expenditure.
Overall
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,
ther
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there
 are four main
categories
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 as we can see and almost they are at the same range of expenditure through the 5 years, which they are education, healthcare, pensions and defence. It seems that the interest on borrowing will rise about double from 5% to 10%. Welfare and culture and
lesisure
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leisure
 both had little interest about 3 to 2% but over the years decreases to 1%
mainwhile
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meanwhile
main while
 defence faced
declining
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a declining
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 trend from 17% to 14%.
In
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contrast
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 transport gradually increased
about
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by about
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 5%.
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However
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 the other
categories
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 remained stable at
same
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the same
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 percentage of expenditure. In general, most
the
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of the
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 nine
categories
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 remained in good nice increase or stable through the 5 years. Personally, I see that the consumption
in
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of
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 education ought to rise
instead
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 of decreasing from 24% to 21%.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words categories with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "remained" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "rise" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "stable" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 3 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • expenditure
  • allocation
  • budget
  • fiscal
  • increased/decreased spending
  • percentage
  • funding
  • infrastructure
  • public services
  • education
  • healthcare
  • recreation
  • welfare
  • economic conditions
  • fiscal policy
  • trend
  • analysis
  • comparative
  • significant
  • allocate
  • reallocate
  • subsidize
  • cutbacks
  • deficit
  • surplus
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