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Hong Kong has taken over from Tokyo as the world’s most expensive city, acco

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问题     Hong Kong has taken over from Tokyo as the world’s most expensive city, according to alifestyle survey. It also【B1】______the gap between the costliest and cheapest citiesis narrowing. Moscow【B2】______at second place in the survey, released by Mercer Human Resource Consulting,with Tokyo third.At the other end of the scale,Johannesburg【B3】______Blantyre, Malawi as the cheapest city on the planet. Mercer said the【B4】______between those at the top and the bottom of the pile had narrowed bynearly 15 percent in the 12 months to March 2002. The research took New York as the base citywith a【B5】______score of 100 points.Hong Kong scored 124.2; the South Africanmetropolis just 34.4. It measured the【B6】______cost of over 200 items such ashousing, food, clothing and household goods as well as transport and【B7】______in 144 cities worldwide. St. Petersburg in Russia and London were the two most expensive cities in Europe, while in the U.S., New York was far and away the costliest  city, followed by Los Angeles,Chicago and San Francisco. Elsewhere, Buenos Aires had the most dramatic fall. It【B8】______23rd to 133rd following the economic crisis and devaluation of its【B9】______.New Zealand and Australian cities continued to show they are probably the best bet for cheap but high quality living. Their scores are【B10】______around 50 or below, while at thesame time ranking in the top 30 for quality of life in another Mercer survey released in March 2002. [br] 【B4】
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