Question

先通讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根據短文內容和所給首字母，在空格內填入一個適當的詞，使短文意思完整。所填單詞在題后橫線上必須完整寫出。

       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 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.

1._____________          2. ____________           3. _____________         4. ____________ 5. ____________           6. ____________           7. _____________         8. ____________

9. ___________    10. ___________   11. ____________  12. ___________

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