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LOS ANGELES—Hong Kong immigrants living in the American city known as the "C

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问题     LOS ANGELES—Hong Kong immigrants living in the American city known as the "Chinese Beverly Hills" are【B1】______ . because they face losing a lucky phone number—818, or prosperity followed by more prosperity.
    Many people living in Monterey Park, the only U.S. city with a【B2】______ of Asian residents, attribute its growing affluence to the country’s most【B3】______ three-digit area code.
    But rapidly increasing demand for telephones means the 818 group is【B4】______  out, and the phone company is proposing to split it in two, giving Monterey Park 626 instead.
    Chinese residents are【B5】______ because the new number adds up to 14—colloquially translating to certain death.
    The city filed a formal【B6】______ with California’s Public Utilities Commission, arguing that many Chinese residents of the San Gabriel Valley had moved there only because of the area code.
    A spokesman said that there was also strong【B7】______ for real estate with lucky street numbers.
    One【B8】______ of neighboring Alhambra, which also has a large Chinese population, is Hong Kong-born property developer Raymond Cheng,【B9】______ . The number plates of his Rolls-Royce and two Mercedes-Benz cars are predominantly eights.
    He also recalled having to complete a contract to remodel a Monterey Park bank in a rush  【B10】______ , the highly auspicious double eight.
    "【B11】______ ,"he was quoted as saying. [br] 【B11】
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答案 "There was no other reason except that the date signified good fortune and prosperity,"
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