The residents of this small mountain town, most of them descended from families who settled the valley generations ago, worry about the (i) _______ of their remote, old-fashioned existence, particularly whenever news of sweeping global crises reaches them, yet the documentary filmmaker renders their daily routines (ii) ______ in ways that never come across as (iii) ______ in the slightest. Genuine events unfold here-harvests, funerals, elections, feuds, reconciliations, apprenticeships, town-hall votes-and every one of them carries real weight.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. isolation	D. compelling	G. peripheral
B. irrelevance	E. deteriorate	H. exotic
C. hardship	F. flourish	I. contrived