LISTENING TO THE RADIO AND YOU CAN STAY INFORMED ABOUT CURRENT AFFA...

32.Listening to the radio and you can stay informed about current affairs. A B C D Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correctword for each of the blanks.Rural America is diverse in many ways. (33)______ we have seen, no one industry dominates the rural economy, no single pattern of population decline or (34)______ exists for all rural areas, and no statement about improvements and gaps in well-being holds true for all rural people. Many of these differences are regional in nature. That is, rural areas within a particular geographicregion of the country often tend to be similar (35)______ each other and different from areas in (36)______region. Some industries, for example, are (37)______ with different regions – logging and sawmills in thePacific Northwest and New England, manufacturing in the Southeast and Midwest, and farming in theGreat Plains. Persistent poverty also has a regional pattern, concentrated primarily in the Southeast. Otherdifferences follow no regional pattern. Areas that rely heavily (38)______ the services industry are locatedthroughout rural America, as are rural areas that have (39)______ access to advanced telecommunicationsservices. Many of these differences, regional and non-regional, are the result of a (40)______ of factorsincluding the availability of natural (41)______; distance from and access to major metropolitan areas andthe information and services found there; transportation and shipping facilities; political history andstructure; and the racial, ethnic, and (42)______ makeup of the population.