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  3. Kuwait is a country which is quite small, but which is quite rich. It has a

Kuwait is a country which is quite small, but which is quite rich. It has a

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问题     Kuwait is a country which is quite small, but which is quite rich. It
has a population of a little more than a million, and it is situated at the
north end of the Persian Gulf. This small desert country is one.., the                【M1】_______.
world’s leading oil producers and it has approximately 15 percentage of the           【M2】_______.
world’s known petroleum reserves. Since the discovery of oil in 1938, Ku-
wait’s rulers had turned the country into a prosperous welfare state. It has free     【M3】_______.
primary and secondary education, free healthy care and social services; and the       【M4】_______.
Kuwaitis do not have to pay any personal income fax for those services.
The rate of literacy is high and constantly grow. The university of Kuwait was        【M5】_______.
open in 1966, but many of the Kuwaiti students still study in colleges and
universities abroad, on state expense. Kuwait is, needless to point out, an           【M6】_______.
Arab country, and the majority of tile people who live there are Moslems.             【M7】_______.
But fewer than half of these Moslems are actually citizens of Kuwait. This
is because there arc many Moslem emigrant living and working there. Man-              【M8】_______.
y of these people have come from all over the Arab world-from places like
Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and from the Sudan. The minority of the population,
in other word the non Moslems, have come to this country because                      【M9】_______.
they were attracted by the opportunities to work for the oil companies.
There are several thousands Europeans and Americans in Kuwait. Many of                【M10】_______.
them are employed by the oil companies. [br] 【M10】
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答案 thousands 改成 thousand
解析 此处解题关键是区分表示数量时thousand的用法。表示有多少个千可以说 one thousand，two thousand，ten thousand，这时thousand不可以加s。表示一个总体的数目，可以变成复数，但同时要加上of一词，如several thousands of persons，但是通常说“几千”习惯用法是“thousands of”，而不是“several thousands of”，所以只能把s去掉。
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