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    Do you know 1.             countryside is changing these years in some countries?

    Life has becoming difficult in many villages, and some are becoming empty. There are a lot of 2.           

 for this. Firstly Young people from 3.             usually want to live somewhere livelier, and they often move

to the towns and do not return. 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 villages 5.             they come and stay at weekends. The price of houses 6.            

 (go) up and people like to buy a house in the countryside. 7.              problem is that it is becoming more

and more difficult for farmers to make money from their farms. 8.              they sell their land and find

another job.

    All these things mean that many villages are 9.              (fight) to survive (留下来). We can only hope

that they will remain. The countryside would be sadder and uglier places 10.              them.