The well-being of America's rural people and places depends

Read the following passage adapted from Understanding Rural America - Info USA and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 19 to 28.The well-being of America's rural people and places depends upon many things - the availability of good-paying jobs; (19)______ to critical services such as education, health care, and communication; strong communities; and a healthy natural environment. And, (20)______ urban America is equally dependent upon these things, the challenges to well-being look very different in rural areas than in urban areas. Small-scale, low-density settlement (21)______ make it more costly for communities and businesses to provide critical services. Declining jobs and income in the natural resource-based industries that many rural areas depend on (22)______ workers in those industries to find new ways to make a living. Low-skill, low-wage rural manufacturing industries must find new ways to challenge the increasing number of (23)______ competitors. Distance and remoteness impede many rural areas from being connected to the urban centers of economic activity. Finally, changes in the availability and use of natural resources located in rural areas (24)______ the people who earn a living from those resources and those who (25)______ recreational and other benefits from them.Some rural areas have met these challenges successfully, achieved some level of prosperity, and are ready (26)______ the challenges of the future. Others have neither met the current challenges nor positioned themselves for the future. Thus, concern for rural America is real. And, while rural America is a producer of critical goods and services, the (27)______ goes beyond economics. Rural America is also home to a fifth of the Nation's people, keeper of natural amenities and national treasures, and safeguard of a/an (28)______ part of American culture, tradition, and history.

Câu 1: _______(19)

A. advantage

B. key

C. challenge

D. access

Câu 2: _________(20)

A. because

B. when

C. since

D. while

Câu 3: __________(21)

A. means

B. patterns

C. tools

D. styles

Câu 4: _________(22)

A. turn

B. make

C. offer

D. force

Câu 5: __________(23)

A. rural

B. lateral

C. abroad

D. foreign

Câu 6: ___________(24)

A. effect

B. encourage

C. affect

D. stimulate

Câu 7: ____________(25)

A. involve

B. evolve

C. bring

D. derive

Câu 8: __________(26)

A. in

B. for

C. with

D. of

Câu 9: ____________(27)

A. research

B. stimulus

C. concern

D. impatience

Câu 10: ____________(28)

A. unique

B. incredible

C. simple

D. abnormal

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