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. 【M1】