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City Rating

Most of us like to know about the place we go there. One thing we could do is to read a guide book. Another is to look at a new survey conducted by one of the world’s large Human Resources Consultancies. This agency decided to judge some of the world’s great cities. They produced their results by giving marks for various criteria. These included political, economic, and social environment, healthcare, educational provision and transport infrastructures.

So, which are the best cities to live in, and which should we avoid? In joint first place were Vancouver, Berne, Vienna and Zurich while Sydney, Geneva, Auckland and Copenhagen came second. Swiss cities occupied three of the top ten places, making in the single most successful country of all those surveyed.

New York was used as the base city with a score of 100, which put it in 50th place.

Overall, US cities suffered because of high crime rates. The highest ranked US city was Honolulu with 104 points.

For Londoners, the news was not too bad. London was slightly ahead of New York with 101.5. The report named London’s good international relations as a positive point. Its poorest scores – six out of ten – were awarded for its climate and traffic. Bottom of the list was Brazzaville, in the Congo, where there was a civil war.

Mayor of London said that it was unfair to compare large international cities with small cities since the smaller ones were far easier to run. «You have to look at the cities of five million people plus. On that basis we are much better than Tokyo and New York,» said Mayor of London. (adapted from World of English)



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  1. The agency decided to judge some ___________

  2. ____________was used as a base city.

  3. London’s poorest scores –____________– were awarded for its ___________

  4. Bottom of the list was _____________

  5. Mayor of London said that it was unfair to compare ___________with small cities.

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