Passage Four
Romania,country of southeastern Europe. The national capital is Bucharest. Romania is about one-third mountainous and one-third forested,with the rest made up of hills and plains. The climate is temperate and marked by four different seasons. Romania enjoys a lot of natural resources:fertile land for agriculture; forests that provide hard and soft woods;petroleum reserves;metals,including gold and silver in the Apuseni Mountains;many rivers that supply electricity;and a Black Sea coastline that is the site of both ports and holiday centers.
Romania is bordered by Ukraine to the north,Moldova to the northeast,the Black Sea to the southeast,Bulgaria to the south,Serbia to the southwest,and Hungary to the west. The country forms a complex geographic unit centred on the Transylvanian Basin around the Carpathian Mountains. Beyond this zone are the large plains in the south and east of the country.
Romanian,a Romance language,is the official language of the country. The Daco-Romanian dialect is spoken by nine-tenths of the population in several regions. Hungarian is the only other language of Romania that is spoken by more than a million people. Smaller numbers of people speak Romany,German, Turkish,Serbian,and other languages.
Romania is located at a crossroads of European transport. Railways provide the main method of transportation for both freight and passengers in the country. There are good local rail connections with the main lines,including the two that cross the Danube,at Cernavoda (linking Bucharest with the Black Sea port of Constanta) and Giurgiu (connecting Romania with Bulgaria). Since the 1930s, cars have been in service,and about one-third of the major lines have been electrified. Most of Romania's system of national roads has been brought up to modern standards.
Which best summarizes the main idea of paragraph 1?