Part Ⅰ Cloze

During the mid-1980s, my family and I spent a  1   year in the historic town of St. Andrews, Scotland. Comparing life there with life in America, we were impressed by a  2   disconnection between national wealth and well-being. To most Americans, Scottish life would have seemed  3  . Incomes were about half that in the U.S. Among families in the Kingdom of Fife surrounding St. Andrews, 44 percent did not own a car, and we never met a family that owned two. Central heating in this place  4   south of Iceland was, at that time, still a luxury.

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