Write one word from the article in each gap to complete the summary

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1.Read the article and complete its summary. Fill in the
words from the text. Don’t write more than two words in each gaps.

Is it easy to be young in the 21^st
century?

   There is an opinion that youth is the best part of a
person’s life. What is it – a fact or a stereotype? Happy Youth supporters’
arguments sound very convincing. According to them, when you are fifteen or
sixteen, the future seems cloudless, the world around you is beautiful and
friendly, and you feel strong and optimistic. Neither health nor other problems
trouble you yet. You have the parents who protect and support you. You have
friends who never betray you. Conflicts are certainly unavoidable, but they
don’t last long, and it’s usually not a problem to survive through them. This
is a conventional idea about young people. But is it true?

    Psychologists insist that they have lots of work with
teenagers. In their “happiest” years they have too many problems, and in most
cases they don’t know how to solve them. They lack life experience and are not
self-confident enough. They are often too categoric and can’t forgive other
people’s faults and mistakes. A quarrel or misunderstanding can lead to serious
suffering. “I don’t feel happy at all”, says Jack Green, 14. “I have no
friends. It always works the same. At first it seems that I’ve found a real
friend, but then I feel very disappointed because he betrays me – tells silly
stories about me in the school, or doesn’t help when I need help. It has
happened many times.”

    “The thing which worries me a lot is my future job”, says
Helen Carter, 15. “To have a good life in the future, I have to find a good
job. If I want to find a good job, I have to get a good education first. But
how am I supposed to choose my career line?! I don’t know what’s good and
what’s bad for me. I cannot make an informal choice. I need to make some
decision about my education very soon and I feel awfully scared. What if I make
a mistake and get an education for a wrong job? This means that I’ll have to do
the job which I don’t like or even hate. This makes me feel sick.”

    On reading these words we, adults, realize that being
young is not so easy. It’s rather challenging to be a teenager of the 21^st
century, when the world changes so rapidly and people have to work very hard to
keep pace with it  (успевать за ним). Who can
help young people feel less stressed out and more self-confident? Who can
provide them with information and advice? The answer, I suppose, is evident.

___________________________

The author of the article thinks that the opinion that the
youth is the best of human life may be true. He presents rather
(1)_____________ arguments for the idea. The strongest argument is that
teenagers have fewer

(2) _____________ in comparison with adult people, let along
the elderly. And it goes without saying that healthy people feel stronger, more
energetic, more optimistic and consequently happier than people in poor health.

     However, the author also presents some facts which do
not go with the (3) _____________ idea that “youth” and “happiness” are
synonyms. Psychologists say that teenagers do have problems. Most of them are
caused by their lack of  (4) _____________ and lack of self-confidence Another
typical teenage problem is that they cannot compromise. Looking for an ideal
relationship they often feel bitterly (5) _____________ with their friends who
are not able to meet high requirements.

      Worries about the future career add up to the teenager
syndrome. It’s extremely difficult for a 15-16 year old person to make an (6)
_____________, as they don’t have enough information yet. At the end of the
article the author concludes that being a teenager in our dynamic world is
rather (7)   _____________. Adults should realize that teenagers often need
their support and advice.  

Правильные ответы.

1) convincing        2) problems       3) convential       
4) life experience      5) disappointed   

                  6) informed choice                  7)
challenging

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