In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in
each blank.
Last week, I made the mistake of revisiting the village where I grew up. It used to be a small, friendly community with two farms and a
number of old cottages round the village green. I realised very quickly that although in (1)_______ ways it appears unchanged, in reality
hardly anything is the same. All the pretty cottages are there, of course, and both the traditional farm houses. (2)_______, none of the
inhabitants are country people. All of them are commuters, who leave early every morning for the nearby town. Neither of the
farmhouses are attached to a farm these days; the land (3)_______ and is managed by somebody in an office somewhere who has little
interest in the village (4)_______. There are a few new houses but, they have no local character. You can see the same style anywhere in
the country. The whole village, (5)_______, has been tidied up so much that it looks no more picturesque than any suburban street.