题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

In some countries in western Europe, life has become difficult for many villages, and some 1.(disappear). There are a number of 2.(reason) for this. Firstly, young people from villages usually want to live somewhere 3.(lively) and they often move to the towns and do not return. Secondly, as there are often very few jobs in the countryside, people would like to move to the cities to find work, leaving their villages 4.(abandon). Sometimes villages remain 5. people from the cities have bought a “second home” in the village, 6. they come and stay at weekends. As 7. result, the price of homes goes up and people from the area can not afford 8.(buy) a house there. Another problem is that 9. is becoming more and more difficult for farmers to make money from their farms. So they sell their land and find another job.

All these things mean that many villages in western Europe are fighting to survive. We can only hope that they will remain. The countryside would be a sadder and uglier place 10. them.