Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word, Write your answers in the space provided

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.