改错：Cities can be frightened places.

Cities can be frightened places. The majority of __1__the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear __2__when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. Strange __3__enough, whereas 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 __4__other.

Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village togeth- __5__er. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. So __6__country life has disadvantages too. For example,shopping becomes a major problem and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expe- __7__dition to the nearest large town. The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the __8__disadvantages 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 __9__things and that life doesn’t come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise be-tween the two: they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the __10__country within commuting distance of the large city.