填空题 The majority of the population lives in noisy massive tower blocks. Cities
can be frightened places. The sense of belonging to a community tends to dis- (56)______
appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange enough, whereas (57)______
in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people
on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each other. Country life, (58)______
on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense
of community generally keep the in-habitants of a small village together. (59)______
People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to
when they need help. So country life has disadvantages too. For example, (60)______
shopping becomes a major problem and for something slightly out of the ordi- (61)______
nary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. The country (62)______
has the advantage of peace and quietness, but suffers from the disadvantage of
being cut off. The city has noise and population which do harm to human
health. But one of their main advantages is that you are at the centre of things (63)______
and that life doesn't come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have
found a compromise between two: they expressed their preference for the qui- (64)______
et life by leaving for the city and moving to the country within commuting (65)______
distance of the large city.