What are the one percent non-Moslems engaged in Kuwait?
A. Working for oil companies.
B. Working for medical organizations.
C. Working for UN inspection teams.
D. Working for NGOs.
If the weather isn't too cold, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the only air-conditioning
they get. At least, the street lights still burn. Indoor, few people can afford to keep lights burning after supper.
As for the winter—well, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded for the dawn. But sweaters are popular indoor wear. Showers are not an everyday luxury.
It is sore in the suburbs, which were born with the auto, lived with the auto, and are dying with the auto. Suburbanites from associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open.
What energy is left must be conserved for agriculture. The great car factories make trucks and farm machinery almost exclusively. The American population isn't going up much any more, but the food supply must be kept high even though the prices and difficulty of distribution force each American to eat less. Food is needed for export to pay for some trickles of oil and for other resources.
The rest of the world is not as lucky as we are. They're staving out there because earth's population has continued to rise. The population on earth is 5.5 billion — up by 1.5 billion since 1977 — and outside the United States and Europe, not more than one in five has enough to eat at any given time. There is high infant mortality rate.
It's more than just starvation, though. There are those who manage to survive on barely enough to keep the body working, and that proves to be not enough for the brain. It is estimated that nearly two billion people in the world are permanently brain-damaged by under-nutrition, and the number is growing.
At least the big armies are gone. Only the United States and the Soviet Union can maintain a few tanks, planes, and ships —which they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves.
Machines must be replaced by human muscle and beasts of burden. People are working longer hours, and with lighting restricted, television only three hours a night, new books few and printed in small editions—what is there to do with leisure? Work, sleep, and eating are the ,great trinity of 1977 ,and only the first two are guaranteed.
What is the passage about?
A. It is a history of life in 1977.
B. It is the description of life after a war.
C. It is an imaginary account of life in 1977.
D. It is a scientific study of life in 1977.
What do you think the next paragraph will probably discuss?
A. Explain the healing power of humor.
B. Prof. McCarty shared fun and laughter with his children.
C. Summarize the whole text.
Describe a humorous story told by one of the four typical women.
When did major changes begin in the U.S. comic industry?
A. Before the start of World War Ⅱ.
B. After the end of World War Ⅱ.
C. During World War Ⅱ.
D. Several years after World War Ⅱ.