2 . What does the woman think of her own opinion?

The buzzwords (时髦术语) “brittle college students” have gone viral on the Internet recently among mounting concerns over     1    serious decline in the physical health of Chinese college students. The words refer to the new generation of college students generally     2     (suffer) from many physical problems. “Brittle,” which     3     (apparent) means tender and fragile (脆弱), has been used by netizens jokingly     4     (describe) how easily college students can get injured and sick.

Such comments have caused heated discussions over the declining physical     5     (fit) of contemporary college students,    6     is confirmed by the astonishing record of visits to one hospital in the city of Zhengzhou, north-central Henan Province. It is reported that Zhengzhou Central Hospital     7     (receıve) some 1,700 young people aged between 18 and 25 in its emergency department in September alone.

“These young people were mainly diagnosed (诊断) with trauma, abdominal pain, chest tightness, hyperventilation, acute alcoholism, and cholecystitis. Most cases were caused by     8     (regular) daily routine, staying up late and unhealthy diet,” said Cheng Xiaodan, deputy director of the hospital’s emergency department.

A report pointed out that unhealthy lifestyle is common     9     college students. Many participants said they had experienced health     10     (issue) such as poor skin condition, lack of sleep, and emotional problems.

7 . Do you sometimes ignore your mom while chatting with friends? If you’re a teen, that’s fairly ________. And new researches may explain why so many adolescents ________ their mom’s voices.

Young kids’ brains are very tuned in to their mothers’ voices. But as they grow up, everything ________. Teenagers’ brains are more tuned in to strangers’ voices. This obvious ________ usually happens between ages 13 and 14. That’s when teenagers are in the course of puberty (青春期), a roughly decade-long transition into adulthood.

Researchers scanned the brains of 7 to 16-year-olds as they listened to things said by their mothers or by unfamiliar women. The words were purely ________: teebudieshawlt, keebudieshawlt and peebudieshawlt. As the kids listened, certain parts of their brains became ________. This was especially true in brain regions that help us to ________ rewards and pay attention. That’s exactly as it should be. The experiments show that those parts of their brains react more strongly to the unfamiliar voices than to their mothers’.

These areas in the adolescent brains don’t stop ________ mom. It’s just that unfamiliar voices become more rewarding and worthy of attention. “As kids ________, their survival depends less and less on maternal support. ________ , they rely more and more on their ________—friends and others closer to their own age. So the brains need to begin paying more attention to that wider world. The brain seems to ________ new needs that come with adolescence.”

However, mothers’ voices still have special power, especially in times of ________. Studies also showed that levels of stress hormones (荷尔蒙) ________ when stressed-out girls heard their moms’ voices on the phone.

So while both teens and their parents sometimes feel frustrated by missed messages, that’s okay. “That’s the way the ________ is wired, and there’s a good reason for it.”

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Steps to bolster youth employment

A national employment campaign is taking place from July to December     1     (focus) on this year’s 10.76 million new college graduates and jobless people under the age of 35, said the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Under the national campaign, human resources bureaus at all levels are required to collect and provide employment information and offer graduates recruitment platforms and other     2     (channel) to find jobs. More regular on-site job fairs will be organized during the campaign.

Graduates who have financial difficulties or disabilities will receive additional help in securing internships and professional guidance on job interviews. The ministry said they will improve its supervision of     3     (legal) behaviors encroaching on young people’s rights, such as unqualified employment agencies, as well as gender and age discrimination.