Text 2. Troubled Youth – Common Problems and Ways to Help

1. Убедитесь, что Вам понятны слова и выражения, перечисленные ниже. Если необходимо, воспользуйтесь словарем.

to grow up preteens transitioning teenage years challenge adult troubled youth supportive fair limits to stumble anxiety to overcome to fail to keep track of somebody

solution to express oneself risk taking invincible binge drinking safety underage reserved abusive inhalant to combat issue perfection

to strike to pull away from somebody trouble sleeping eating habits physical activity to schedule obese tough to fit in overweight self-esteem to succeed unsupervised free time

2. Соедините разрозненные части выражений и составных слов.

1	risk	A	years
2	to pull	B	track
3	fair	C	drinking
4	trouble	D	habits
5	binge	E	youth
6	physical	F	sleeping
7	teenage	G	activity
8	eating	H	limits
9	to keep	I	away
10	troubled	J	taking

3. Заполните пробелы недостающими словами из списка (Упражнение 1).

1. She suffered from ________ attacks.

2. "These are the guys I __________ with, best friends," Staudacher said.

3. I could have been reading about a drug ________, alcoholic young man.

4. For instance, you can become a better problem solver by looking beyond your personal biases and blind spots to consider alternative ___________.

5. But the analyst questioned whether Jackson fans would want to use a virtual world, which is mostly populated by _________ and teenagers, he said.

6. They ________ to be ranked in the top ten.

7. Convincing voters that he means it, however, may be Mr. Romney’s greatest __________.

8. The release of the single is _________ for April.

9. Ending our fossil fuel addiction is the only way to truly __________ climate change.

10. Children should be accompanied by an ________.

4. Сократите данные предложения, заменяя словами из списка (Упражнение 1) выделенные курсивом конструкции. Если это необходимо, измените порядок слов.

1. “It was very difficult and severely testing to go through, disappointing,” he said.

2. Keeping informed and fully aware of a country's greenhouse gases is an accounting problem of epic proportions.

3. In Medicare, costs of caring for more than average fat and obese seniors is rising faster than for the general population.

4. He achieved the desired aim in winning a pardon.

5. The audits also found five facilities that employed workers not of legal age.

6. Expecting the state of being without a flaw or defect is asking too much of a human being and an algorithm.

7. And, as with something that is inhaled, abuse is seen mainly among younger teens, poor people and prisoners.