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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 a lifestyle survey. It also【B1】______ the gap between the costliest and cheapest cities is 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 by nearly 15 percent in the 12 months to March 2002. The research took New York as the base city with a【B5】______ score of 100 points. Hong Kong scored 124.2: the South African metropolis just 34.4. It measured the【B6】______ cost of over 200 items such as housing, 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 the same time ranking in the top 30 for quality of life in another Mercer survey released in March 2002.  [br] 【B2】
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