Life is hard. And junior middle school students have every reason to say so.

Recently, Zhejiang did     1     survey of young people’s mental health. It found that junior middle school students in Zhejiang feel the     2     (big) pressure from school among teenagers. Besides, 48.8 percent of middle school students show signs of mental health problems.

What are students     3     (worry) about?

“    4    , the class ranking after exams. Second, being unable to reach their     5     (parent) expectation,” the Youth Times reported.

This is not only true with Chinese students. The American Psychological Association recently did a similar survey. The results are     6     (surprise) in the US, teenagers have a higher level of stress than adults. For them, one of the big reasons for stress     7     (be) also schoolwork.

    8     can we do to help?

“To begin with, make sure you have an active life. Have a 9-10 hours’ sleep a day, find someone to exercise with every day, an expert from the association.” Also, try to keep away     9     mobile phones and computers.     10     you spend too much time on them, you will more likely feel upset.”

Teenagers have a strong wish for freedom, they don’t want their parents to set too many family rules for them to o    1    . They don’t like being treated as children, e    2    . They usually want to wear cool clothes, have cool hairstyle and talk in a very cool way. So this always d    3     their parents mad. If their parents don’t try to get on well with their children, young people may feel bad and even hate their family.

To solve the p    4    , parents and children should sit down and talk about it. Both parents and children should be p    5     to listen to each other, and they should be ready to change a little.

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