Direction: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on the Answer Sheet. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

THE GOVERNMENT of Hangzhou, capital of East China’s Zhejiang province, has issued a new policy to improve the working and living conditions of rural teachers at the grassroots level and to make sure the more remote the countryside school is, the 【B1】______ level of treatment the teachers will receive.

Village teachers work in relative poverty and 【B2】______ and bear a heavy workload, which results in people’s respect for those who do the job, but 【B3】______ who are willing to do the work.

With the efforts of all levels of government and a package of policies to make the job more rewarding, more young people will be attracted to join the 【B4】______ and remain in their posts for a while.

The low pay, tough working conditions and hardships of life in remote areas mean, in reality, teachers in the remote areas 【B5】______ not to stay there long. Even if the salaries for teachers in rural areas are made higher, even much more, than they are for those in 【B6】______ areas, the rural teachers may still opt to leave not for salary 【B7】______ for a more comfortable and respectable life.

Japan is a good example to learn from. With uniform wage standards across the country, governments and societies make joint endeavors to hire more village teachers. Now, even in the remotest countryside, schools are B8】______ with swimming pools, music classrooms, libraries and other facilities.

To improve the living conditions of teachers in remote areas, the local governments have even built accommodation specifically for rural teaching 【B9】______.

With the rapid pace of 【B10】______ in China, we should expect more funds, more benefits and more facilities to go into supporting teachers in the countryside. It needs to become a respectable job so that more young people are encouraged to choose it as a career.