Passage 2The most visible result of this buoyant market in both centres is a plethora of new multi-storey commercial and residential buildings. In Abu Dhabi, these projects are let through the Khalifah committee or the Department of Social Services to local consultants, but in Dubai there is more of an international spread.Building work apart, consultants predict a fairly wide spread of projects. “We expect the market to remain buoyant for the next couple of years. There is a fair bit of work at Mina Zayed coming up, a fair bit of road-working on the island and the hinterland, and we expect some airport development to rear its head in the not too distant future,” says one long-established Abu Dhabi-based consultant.41.Please explain “rear its head” and “Abu Dhabi-based” in the last sentence.

During the past few years a major objective of the Chinese authorities has been to reduce the proportion of agricultural exports, while increasing that of industrial and mineral products. A wide variety of industrial goods are now exported and Chinese capital equipment has been used by a number of developing countries to establish projects in areas such as agriculture, forestry, light industry, food processing, water conservation and transport and communications.

Farmers 【bartered】 rice for machinery.

Money is still a major 【incentive】 in most occupations.

For China's newly-rising enterprises, 【profits】 are up throughout the region-thanks largely to low wages.

The workers demanded the same wage and the same treatment! There must be no 【discrimination】.

Victims of the world's largest industrial accident got $470 million 【compensation】.

South Korea needs only some degree of 【sweat】 and some degree of technological sophistication.

Experts predict that the stock market will remain 【buoyant】.

International conditions for growth in developing countries 【deteriorated】 in 1991.