题目内容：

    根据下面短文内容，在短文的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。

We often believe our parents are always there for us, but this is not true for “left-behind” children. They can see their parents usually once a year. Parents have to ask the 1. to look after the young, leave them behind in the countryside, and go to big cities to work.

In China, there are about 21 million children from the countryside, and one third of them are left behind. At the end of each year, these parents will go 2. home to stay with their kids for a few days.

In fact, these children will have many 3. with schoolwork and health. For example, the old may not be able to help them with homework or look after them well .This will make these children lose parents’ love and keep themselves away 4. other people.

The government (政府) is now trying their best to take good care of the left-behind children, such as sending volunteers to the countryside. They will report to the government 5. they find something wrong with any left-behind child. However, the best way to solve the problems is to bring parents and children back together. The government tried to ask these parents to go back to hometowns to 6. for work and business. 7. way is to make it easier for the children to go to school in big cities. Then their parents can both work and see them every day.

Many governments showed great improvement in 8. the problems. Thanks to them, the number of left-behind children has decreased by (减少了) 22.7 percent according to the latest report.