Migrant Workers

In the past twentyyears,there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from onecountry to

another._________(51)somenewly independent countries have understandably restricted most jobs to local

people,others haveattracted and welcomed migrant workers.This is particularly the case in theMiddle

East,_______(52)increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to__________(53)outsiders to im-

prove localfacilities.__________(54)the Middle East has attracted oil-workers from the USA andEurope.It

has brought inconstruction workers and technicians from many countries,________(55)South Korea and

Japan.

In view of thedifficult living and working conditions in the Middle East,itis not___________(56)that

the pay is high toattract suitable workers.Many engineers and technicians can earn atleast___________(57)

1money in the Middle East as they can in their own country,and this isa major attraction.An allied benefit

is the low taxationor complete lack of it.This increases the net amount of pay received byvisiting workers

and is very popularwith them.

Sometimes adisadvantage has a compensating advantage.__________(58),the difficult livingconditions

often lead toincreased friendship when workers have to depend on eachother____________(59)safety and com-

fort.___________(60),many migrant workers can save large sums of money partly_________(61)the lack of

entertainmentfacilities.The work is often complex and full of problems but this merelypresents greater

challenge toengineers who prefer to find solutions__________(62)problems rather than doroutine work in

their home country.

One major problemwhich___________(63)migrant workers in the Middle Eastis that their jobs are tem-

porary ones.They arenearly always on contract,so it is not easy for them to plan ahead with greatconfi-

dence.This is to beexpected since no country welcomes a large number of foreign workers aspermanent

residents.____________(64),migrantworkers accept this disadvantage,along with others,because of the

___________(65)financialbenefits which they receive._________(62)

A.in

B.about

C.for

D.to