3 全球宜居城市排名大变，奥克兰荣登榜首

Covid-free Auckland, New Zealand, crowned world's most livable city
没有疫情的城市——新西兰的奥克兰——折桂全球最宜居城市
Auckland has been named the world's most livable city on the strength of New Zealand's pandemic response. The metropolitan （大都市的）area that is home 1_____around 1.6 million people topped a global livability index 2_____(release) by the Economist Intelligence Unit on Wednesday.
Cities in other island nations — Australia and Japan — also ranked high on the list, in part due to their covid-19 experiences. Vienna, which had led since 2018, fell below the top 10, 3_____(join) other cities in Europe that spent much of the past year under forms of lockdown(封锁) alongside a slow start to vaccination（疫苗） programs.
"The cities that have risen to the top of the rankings this year are largely the ones 4_____ have taken stringent 5_____(measure) to contain the pandemic," the consultancy said in a statement. "New Zealand's tough lockdown allowed their society 6_____(reopen) and enabled citizens of cities like Auckland ... to enjoy a lifestyle that looked similar to pre-pandemic life."
Other cities in the top five — Australia's Adelaide and the New Zealand capital of Wellington — also have relatively low coronavirus case counts by 7_____(globe) standards.
Meanwhile, poor pandemic outcomes caused slippage among some European and Canadian cities that often receive high rankings. Vienna, which had topped the EIU's index in 2019, 8_____(fall) to 12th place. The Syrian capital of Damascus remained rooted to the bottom of the league table, followed by Lagos, Nigeria.
"Cities across the world are now much 9_____(little) livable than they were before the pandemic began, and we've seen that regions such as Europe have been hit 10_______(particular)  hard," the EIU said.
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