17.从方框中选出合适的词,将其正确的形式填入短文,使短文意思正确、通顺。
difficult, disappear, job, need, another, without, price, live, mean, return |
In some countries in western Europe, such as France, Spain and Britain, the countryside is changing.
Life has become difficult for many villages, and some are (1)
now. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, young people from villages usually want (2)
somewhere livelier and they often move to the towns and do not (3)
. Secondly, people move to the cities to find work, as there are often very few (4)
in the countryside. Sometimes villages remain because people from the cities have bought a "second home" in the village, where they come and stay at weekends. The (5)
of homes goes up and people from the area cannot afford to buy a house there. Another problem is that it is becoming more and more (6)
for farmers to make money from their farms. So they sell their land and find (7)
job.
All these things (8)
that many villages in western Europe are fighting to survive. We can only hope that they will remain. The countryside would be a sadder and uglier place (9)
them.