Текст 8.

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1. Teenagers' Interests

2. Do Teenagers Have Problems?

3. Typical American Teenagers.

4. Are Teenagers a Problem?

5. What is a Teenager?

A. Officially, a teenager is anyone aged from 13 to 19 inclusively, but most people would probably think first of the younger age group and exclude 18 and 19-year-olds. After all, once you reach 18 you can vote, get married without your parents' permission, and join the army. On the other hand, children are growing up and developing more quickly, and these days 11 and 12-year-olds would like to include themselves in the 'teenager' group.

B. According to 'the older generation', teenagers are lazy, they wear ridiculous clothes, and are appallingly rude to their betters and elders; they find it impossible to be polite, helpful, constructive, caring or hard-working. What's more, they spend all their time listening to awful music and watching unsuitable films.

C. Teenagers are human so, of course, they have problems. It is a difficult time for them because it is a period of transformation. It isn't quite as bad as a chrysalis changing into a butterfly, but it may seem like that. It isn't easy to grow up, and the dramatic physical and emotional changes are often confusing and worrying.

D. Typical American teenagers are in fact very ordinary. They think their teachers make them work too hard; they love their parents, but are sure they don't understand anything; and their friendships are the most important things in their lives. Some of them do have a lot of money to spend, but usually they have earned it themselves.

Текст 9

Many young people in Britain experience crime in their everyday lives. And who are the criminals that commit these crimes? They are often teenagers, only a little older than the victims.

In November 2000 the murder of a 10-year-old boy shocked many British people. Damilola Taylor was found bleeding to death on some stairs on a housing estate in south-east London. The police believe that some young people were bullying Damilola on his way home from school and stabbed him in the leg with a broken bottle.

The murder of Damilola Taylor was shocking but a recent survey shows that a lot of young British people are victims of crime. In Wales 58% were victims of crime, including theft, bullying and serious threats. For 96% of London's young people (11-15 years) crime is a normal part of growing up. So normal in set that most young people do not report these crimes because they are scared that adults will not believe them or that the criminals will take their revenge.

Much of the crime against young people is committed by other young people. Mobile phone thefts have gone up by five times in the past two years and half the victims are under eighteen. However, the average age of someone who steals mobile phones is just sixteen. Recently a large group of teenagers attacked ten children outside a cinema in London and stole their phones.