IX. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the space provided. (2.0 points)
The country is more beautiful than a town and pleasant to live in. Many people think so, and go to the country (1) __________ the summer holidays though they can not live there all the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village (2) __________ that they can go there whenever they can find the time. English villagers are not all alike, but (3) __________ some ways they are not very different from each other. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of (4) __________ can be seen for many miles around. Surrounding the church is the churchyard, (5) __________ people are buried. The village green (6) __________ 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 town that people can go there to buy (10) __________ they can’t find in the village shops.