Read the passage and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. (10ms)
The country is more beautiful than a town and pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go to the country (l) ………….. the summer holidays though they cannot live (2) …………. all the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village (3) …………. that they can go there whenever they can find the time.
English villagers are not all alike, but (4) …………… some ways they are not very different from each other. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of (5) ……………… can be seen for many miles around. Surrounding the church is the churchyard, (6) ……………… people are buried.
The village green is a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are (7) ……………. round it. Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages (8) ………….. water brought through pipes into each (9) ………………..
Most villages are so close to some small towns that people can go there to buy (10) …………… they can't find in the village shops.