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                                    TheySayIreland'stheBest

  Irelandisthebestplaceintheworldtolivefor2005,accordingtoalifequalityranking(排名)thatappearedinBritain'sEconomistmagazinelastweek.Theambitiousattempttocomparehappinesslevelsaroundtheworldisbasedontheprinciple

thatwealthisnottheonlymeasureofhumansatisfactionandwell-being

  Theindexof111countr iesusesdataonincomes,health,unemployment,climate,politicalstability,jobsecurity,gender(心动)equalityaswellaswhatthemagazinecalls"freedom,familyandcommunitylife”.

  Despitethebadweather,tr oubledhealthservice,tr afficcongestion(拥挤),genderinequalityandthehighcostofliving,

Irelandscoredanimpressive8.33pointsoutof10.

  Thatputitwellaheadofsecond-placeSwitzerland,whichmanaged8.07.Zimbabwetr oubledbypoliticalinsecurityand

hunger,isratedthegloomiest(最差的)pickinguponly3.89points

  “Althoughrisingincomesandincreasedindividualchoicesarehighlyvalued,"thereportsaid,“someofthefactors

associatedwithmodernizationsuchasthebreakdownintr aditionalinstitutionsandfamilyvaluesinparttakeawayfroma

positiveimpact."

  “Irelandwinsbecauseitsuccessfullycombinesthemostd esirableelementsofthenewwiththepreservationofcertain

warmelementsoftheold,suchasstable familyandcommunitylife.”

Themagazineadmittedmeasuringqualityoflifeisnotastr aightforwardthingtodo,andthatitsfindingswouldhavetheir

critics.

  No.2onthelistisSwitzerland.Theothernationsinthetop10areNorway,Luxembourg,Sweden.Austr alia,Iceland,Italy,DenmarkandSpain.

  TheUKispositionedatNo29,amuchlowerpositionchieflybecauseofthesocialandfamilybreakdownrecordedinofficialstatistics.TheUS,whichhasthesecondhighestpercapitaGDPafterLuxembourg,tookthe13thplaceinthesurvey.Chinawasinthelowerhalfoftheleagueat60th.

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答案及解析：原文第一句话“Irelandisthebestlaceintheworldtolivefor2005”说的是2005年这一年度世界上最适合居住的地方是爱尔兰,而题干的意思是近2005年以来爱尔兰都是世界上最适合居住的地方,与原文不符。