单项选择题
The Middle East countries have the largest amount of oil. They have more oil than all the other regions together.
Oil was first discovered in the Middle East in 1908. the first oil field was open in Iran-the famous Masjid-I-Salainman fields. A few years later men found oil in other Middle East countries. But they did not produce much oil at that time because nobody knew the size and value of the oil fields. Then, in 1982 oil was discovered on Bahrain Island. The men who discovered the oil said, if Bahrain has oil, there may be a lot of oilfields in and around the Arabian Gulf.
Immediately men began to search oil in the countries around Gulf. During the next few years, oil was found in many places. The Middle East oil industry then grew fast.
Today this region produces a third of the world’ oil supplies. The Middle East countries now export more oil than any other region. They do not need all their oil. So they are able to export most of their oil to other countries. Europe is one of their chief markets. They supply all the countries of Western Europe and also some of their countries import millions of tons from other countries. They import much of their oil from North Africa and Latin America but most of it from the Middle East.
A．There is some oil than in the United States of America and Canada.
B．There is a third of the world' oil.
C．There is less oil than Africa.
D．There is more oil than in all the other regions together.