单选题
Migrant (移民的) Workers
In the past twenty years, there has been an increasing tendency for workers to move from one country to another. While some countries have restricted most
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to local people, others have attracted and welcomed migrant workers. This is particularly the case in the Middle East,
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increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to call in outsiders to improve local facilities. Thus the Middle East has attracted oil-workers
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the U.S. A. and Europe. It has brought in workers from many countries,
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South Korea and Japan.
In view of the difficult living and working
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in the Middle East, it is not surprising that the pay is high to attract suitable workers. Many engineers and technicians can
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at least twice as much money in the Middle East as they can in their own country, and this is a major
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.
Sometimes a disadvantage has a compensating (补偿的) advantage. For example, the
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living conditions often lead to increased friendship when workers have to
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on each other for safety and comfort. In a similar way, many migrant workers can save large sums of money partly because of the
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of entertainment facilities. The work is often complex and full of problems but this merely
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greater challenge to engineers who prefer to find solutions to problems rather than do routine work in their home country.
One major problem which
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migrant workers in the Middle East is that their jobs are temporary ones. They are nearly always on
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, so it is not easy for them to plan ahead with great confidence. This is to be
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since no country welcomes a large number of foreign workers as permanent residents. In any
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, migrant workers accept this disadvantage, along with others, because of the considerable financial benefits which they receive.