Here are suitable words to fill in the blanks based on the context of the passage:

1. **mountain**
2. **stories**
3. **with**
4. **visitors**
5. **any**
6. **riding**
7. **to**
8. **visitors**

The completed text will read as follows:

I live in a (1) **mountain** village. My parents often tell me (2) **stories** about their life in the past. It's not much like the village I can see nowadays.

Some villagers now live in brick houses instead of earthen ones. Our houses are better equipped (3) **with** electric fans and TVs. Thanks to the TV, we now know more about (4) **visitors** outside our village. We don’t use oil lamps (5) **any** more. More villagers are using motorcycles for transport instead of (6) **riding** a horse or walking. We - village children - no longer have to walk a long way and cross a stream to get (7) **to** school, which is dangerous in the rainy season. Now there’s a new school nearby. We also have more (8) **visitors** from the city. They come to experience our way of life.