Unit 8: The story of my village - Reading

Choose the one option - a, b, c or d - that best completes the passage.  The world is divided (1) ............ two main parts: one part is poor and the (2).......... is rich. The poor countries (3).......... 'the developing countries'. The big problem that they have to (4)............. is lack of food and medical care. A lot of people do not have (5) .......... food to eat and medicine to cure illnesses. In some parts, children are (6).............. starving. The land of those countries is (7) ............ cultivate anything on. They do not know (8) ....................... new farming Methods as well as inventions and discoveries of science and technology.(9) ...............,they do not have enough money to do it. They certainly need help  from (10)............countries.

Choose the correct answer - a, b, c, or d. Last week I made the mistake of visiting the village where I grew up. It was a small, friendly community with two farms and a number of old cottages round the village green. I realized very quickly that although in many ways it appears unchanged, in reality hardly anything is the same. All the pretty cot­tages are there, of course, and both the picturesque farmhouses. But none of the inhabitants are country people. All of them are commuters, who leave early every morning for the nearby town. Neither of the farmhouses is attached to a farm these days; the land has been sold and is managed by somebody in an office somewhere who has little interest in the village itself There are a few new houses, but they have no local character; you can see the same style anywhere in the country. The whole of the village, in fact, has been tidied up so much that it has become nothing more than just another suburb.