During the 1980s, unemployment and underemployment in some countries was as high as 90 percent. Some countries did not (1) enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not (2) . Many of these countries looked to the industrial processes of the developed nations (3) solutions.
(4) , problems cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized nations. Industry in the developed nations is highly automated and very (5) . It provides fewer jobs than labor - intensive industrial processes, and highly (6) workers are needed to (7) and repair the equipment. These workers must be trained, (8) many nations do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the (9) of importing industry becomes higher.
Students must be sent abroad to (10) vocational and professional training. (11) , just to begin training, the students must (12) learn English, French, German, or Japanese. The
A. gifted
B. skilled
C. trained
D. versatile
British men are couch potatoes who spend nearly half their free-time watching TV, an EU survey has revealed. They watch more TV than women, do less housework, less charity work and less childcare -- but spend more time shopping, the poll suggests. Analysts from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, interviewed working men and women in 10 countries.
Britain, where men devoted 49% of their free-time to the box, came a narrow second to the Hungarians with 51%. German and Norwegian men watched the least TV -- just over one third of their spare time. The statisticians took the average of the figures for the whole year including holidays and weekends. They broke down the "average day" into five categories -- free-time, sleep, meals and personal care, travel, domestic chores and work/study.
It shows that British men have four hours and 41 minutes free time each day -- 20 minutes more than women. But women spend nearly double the amount of time on domesti
A. Finland
B. Hungary
C. America
D. Estonia
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