Question

缺词填空。先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。

    In some countries in western Europe, such as France, Belium and Britain, the countryside is c            (1).
    Life has become difficult for many villages, and some are d             (2). There are a number of reasons for
this. Firstly, young people from villages usually want to live s              (3) livelier and they often move to the
towns and do not r             (4). Secondly, people move to the cities to find work, a_______ (5) there are often
very few jobs in the countryside. Sometimes villages remain (留下) because people from the cities have
b______ (6) a "second home" in the village, where they come and s_______ (7) at weekends. The prices of
houses go up and people from the area cannot a________ (8) to buy a house there. Another p_______ (9) is that
it is becoming more and more difficult for farmers to make money from the farms. So they sell their
l________ (10) and find another job.
    All these things mean that many villages in western Europe are f_________ (11) to survive. We can only
hope that they will remain. The countryside would be a sadder and u_________ (12) place without them.

Answer 1

1. changing   2. disappearing   3. somewhere   4. return   5. as   6. bought / built
7. stay   8. afford   9. problem   10. land   11. fighting   12. uglier