Технологии подготовки к ГИА (ЕГЭ) Reading. Part 2
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Технологии подготовки к ГИА (ЕГЭ)

Reading. Part 2

Match the parts  of the sentences(A-G) to the gaps (1-6). There is one extra pert you do not need to use.

Young people. In work and out of work.

Life used to be fun for teenagers. They used to have money to spend, and free time to spend it in. They used to wear teenage clothes, and meet in teenage coffee bars and discos. Some of them still do. But for many young people, life is harder now. Jobs are difficult to find. There’s not so much money around. Things are more expensive, (1) ……….. Teachers say that students work harder than they used to. They are less interested in politics, and more interested in passing exams. They know that good exam results (2) ……..

Most young people worry more about money (3) …………… They try to spend less and save more. They want to be able to get homes of their own one day.

For some, the answer to unemployment is to leave home and look for work in one of Britain’s big cities. Every day hundreds of young people arrive in London from other parts of Britain, looking for jobs. Some find work, and stay. Others don’t find it, (4) ……………

There used to be one kind of teenage fashion, one style, one top pop group. Then, the girls all wore mini-skirts (5) ………………  But now the eighteen-year-old might be a punk, with green hair and chains round his legs, or a skinhead, with short, short hair and right wing politics, or a “rasta”, with long uncombed hair and a love for Africa. There’s a lot of different music around too. There’s reggae, the West Indian sound, there’s rock, there’s heavy metal, country and western, and disco. All these kinds of music are played by different groups and listened to by different fans.

When you read the newspapers and watch the news on television, it’s easy to get the idea that British young people are all unemployed, angry and in trouble. But that’s not true. Three quarters of them do more or less what their parents did. They do their best at school, (6)……………. They get on well with their parents, and enjoy family life. They eat fish and chips, watch football on TV, go to the pub, and like reading about the Royal Family. After all, if they didn’t, they wouldn’t be British, would they?

A.        and everyone danced to the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

B.        than their parents did twenty years ago.

C.        and it’s hard to find place to live.

D.        may get them better jobs.

E.        have friendly relationship with their parents.

F.        find some kind of work in the end, and get married in their twenties.

G.        and go home again, or join the many unemployed in London.

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