Migrant Workers

In the past twentyyears,there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from onecountry to another.______(51)some newly independent countries haveunderstandably restricted most jobs to local people,others

have attracted andwelcomed migrant workers.This is particularly the case in the Middle East,______(52)increased oil incomes have enabled many countriesto______(53)outsiders to improve local facilities.______(54)the

Middle East hasattracted oil-workers from the USAand Europe.It has brought in construction workers and technicians from manycountries,______(55)South Koreaand Japan.

In view of thedifficult living and working conditions in the Middle East,itis not______(56)that the pay is high to attract suitable workers.Many engineersand technicians can earn at least______(57) money in the Middle

East as they can intheir own country,and this is a major attraction.An allied benefit is the lowtaxation or complete lack of it.This increases the net amount of pay receivedby visiting workers and is very popular with them.

Sometimes adisadvantage has a compensating advantage.______(58),the difficult livingconditions often lead to increased friendship when workers have to depend oneach other______(59)safety and comfort.______

(60),many migrantworkers 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 to engineers who

prefer to findsolutions______(62)problems rather than do routine、work in their home country.

One major problemwhich______(63)migrant workers in the Middle East is that their jots aretem-porary ones.They are nearly always on contract,so it is not easy for themto plan ahead with great conn-dence.This is to be

expected、 since no country welcomes a largenumber of foreign workers as permanent residents?______(64),migrant workersaccept this disadvantage,along with others,because of the ______(65)financialbenefits which

they receive.60._________

A.On the contrary

B.In a similar way

C.On the other hand

D.Consequently