The Norwegian Government is doing its best to keep the oil industry under control. A new l

The Norwegian Government is 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 (though these have already been raised); and oil panies 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 the 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 war, the Government has been carrying out a program of development in the area north of the Arctic Circle. During the past few years this program has 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 the north, however. With nearly 100 percent employment, everyone can see a situation developing in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose more of their workers to the oil industry. Some smaller industries might even disappear altogether when it bees 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 the fishermen who are most critical of the oil industry because of the damage that it might cause to the countryside and to the sea.
【小题1】The Norwegian Government would prefer the oil industry to     .A．provide more jobs for foreign workersB．slow down the rate of its developmentC．sell the oil it is producing abroadD．develop more quickly than at present【小题2】The Norwegian Government has tried to     .A．encourage the oil panies to discover new oil sourcesB．prevent oil panies employing people from northern NorwayC．help the oil panies solve many of their problemsD．keep the oil industry to something near its present size【小题3】According to the passage, the oil industry might lead northern Norway to     .A．the development of industryB．a growth in populationC．the failure of the development programD．the development of new towns【小题4】In the south, one effect to the development of the oil industry might be     .A．a large reduction on unemploymentB．a growth in the tourist industryC．a reduction in the number of existing industriesD．the development of a number of service industries【小题5】Norwegian farmers and fishermen have an important influence because     .A．they form such a large part of Norwegian idealB．their lives and values represent the Norwegian idealC．their work is so useful to the rest of Norwegian societyD．they regard oil as a threat to the Norwegian way of lifeB