In the past twenty years, there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from one country to another. (51) some newly independent countries have understandably restricted most jobs to local people, others have attracted and welcomed migrant workers. This is particularly the case in the Middle East, (52) increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to (53) outsiders to improve local facilities. (54) the Middle East has attracted oil-workers from the USA and Europe. It has brought in construction workers and technicians from many countries, (55) South Korea and Japan.
In view of the difficult living and working conditions in the Middle East, it is not (56) that the pay is high to attract suitable workers. Many engineers and technicians can earn at least (57) money in the Middle East as they can in their own country, and this i
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From what has been said, it must be clear that no one can make very positive statements about how language originated. There is no material in any language today and in the earliest (S1) _________ records of ancient languages shows us language in a new and (S2) _________ emerging state. It is often said, of course, that the language (S3) _________ originated in cries of anger, fear, pain and pleasure, and the necessary (S4) _________ evidence is entirely lacking: there are no remote tribes, no ancient records, providing evidence of a language with a large proportion of (S5) _________ such cries than we find in English. It is true that the absence of such evidence does not disprove the theory, but in other grounds (S6) _________ too the theory is not very attractive. People of all races and languages make rather similar noises in return to pain or pleasure. The fact that (S7) _________ such noises are similar on the lips of Frenchmen and Malaysians, whose languages are utterly dif
It was a bright spring afternoon when Freda told me she wouldn’t need me any more. I had just finished my four-hour work (76) up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dishes. She was (77) jeans and a sweater, sitting at the table I had just (78) a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’s (79) was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had (80) happened. I felt sorry for her, but I also felt a sense of (81)
I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and bad (82) an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just (83) I had become an expert at scraping dirt stuck to their wooden floor, (84) that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’ beds. It was (85) than that, for I felt I bad become a part of their life.
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