The bar chart shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.

The bar chart shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.
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The bar chart illustrates the proportion of money spent on five important consumer items (food, housing, transportation,
health
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care, and clothing) in
four
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countries
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(The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan) in one particular year (2009).
Overall
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, it can be seen the higher percentage of the
four
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countries
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consuming was housing,
while
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health
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care and clothing accounted for the lower proportion. In terms of housing, people from
four
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countries
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spent more than a fifth on it, especially in The United States the cost of housing was more than a quarter.
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, the share of food and transportation was
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relatively high, equal to or greater than 10% in all
four
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countries
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. Among them, Japan and the UK,
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, spent more than 20% on food,
whereas
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America and Canada spent more than 15% on transportation.
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both
health
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care and clothing account for a relatively low share of consumption. Canada, the UK, and Japan spend less than 5% on
health
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.
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, the cost of clothing in the
four
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countries
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was quite low, around 5%.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words health, four, countries with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 5 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
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