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| 文章出处： 发布时间：2006-03-25 |
49. The word “suburbanites” in the third paragraph most probably means.
A. Suburban areas
B. suburban defenders
C. Suburban critics
D. suburban inhabitants
50. Those for suburban life would agree to all of the following except.
A.Life in suburbs is by no means uninteresting
B.Suburbs can provide housing for many people
C.The development of the suburbs will create no problems
D.Suburbs offer the advantages of both the city and the countryside
Passage 4
The Norwegian Government in doing its best to keep the oil industry under control. A new law limits exploration to an area south of the southern end of the long coastline; production limits have been laid down (through these have already been raised); and oil companies have not been allowed to employ more than a limited number of foreign workers. But the oil industry has a way of getting over such problems, and few people believe that Government will be able to hold things back for long. As one Norwegian politician said last week: “we will soon be changed beyond all recognition.”
Ever since the law, the Government haw been carrying out a program of development in the area north of the Arctic Circle. During the past few years this program haw had a great deal of success; Tromso has been built up into a local capital with a university, a large hospital and a healthy industry. But the oil industry has already started to draw people south, and within a few years the whole northern policy could be in ruins.
The effects of the oil industry would not be limited to north, however. With nearly 100 percent employment, everyone can see a situation developing in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose most of their workers to the oil industry. Some smaller industries might even disappear altogether when it becomes cheaper to buy goods from abroad.
The real argument over oil is its threat to the Norwegian way of life. Farmers and fishermen do not make up most of the population, but they are an important part of it because Norwegians see in them many of the qualities that they regard with pride as essentially Norwegian. And it is the farmers and fishermen who are most critical of the oil industry because of the damage that it might cause to the countryside and to the sea.
51.The Norwegian Government would prefer the oil industry to ______.
A. provide more jobs for foreign workers
B. slow down the rate of its development
C. sell the oil it is producing abroad
D. develop more quickly than at present
52.The Norwegian Government has tried to _____.
A. encourage the oil companies to discover new oil sources
B. prevent oil companies employing people from northern Norway
C. help the oil companies solve many of their problems
D. keep the oil industry to something near its present size
53.According to the passage, the oil industry might lead in northern Norway to ___
A. the development of industry
B. a growth in population
C. the failure of the development program
D. the development of new towns
54.In the south, one of the development of the oil industry might be_____.
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