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oming victims of 
crime in their community. 
• 80% of young people said they had nowhere to go and nothing to do outside school and hung around on the streets 
as a result. 
• 70% of teenagers said that, in their opinion, young people got involved in anti-social behaviour because they were 
bored. 
• More than 70% of 11-16 year olds said that they have witnessed anti-social behaviour over the last year, whilst 
12% of young people belong to a gang. 
• 62% said that they did not know where to go to get help or information if they needed it. 
• Youth crime costs up to £13 billion per year compared to £1.6 billion spent by government on positive prevention 
and youth programmes. It costs £35,000 to put a young person in a detention centre for a year. 
The Review is calling for an urgent transformation of support for teenagers, it recommends a programme of 
government investment and action to provide positive opportunities for all young people, with early support and 
intervention for troubled teenagers to prevent difficulties escalating. 
The key recommendations are: 
• A Youth Centre in every community providing dedicated spaces for young people to meet, as well as access to 
music, creative arts, sports, classes and specialist intervention and support for teenagers in difficulty. 
• Mobile intervention Teams to work in areas of high deprivation and unrest - offering teenagers specialist and 
positive support. 
• Action on bullying and a new Victim Support scheme for young people who have been the victims of crime. 
• Young Mayors elected in every area to give teenagers representation and a say in their community. 
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• Free public transport and leisure for all young people under 18 to ensure access for all. 
Oona King, Chair of the Review said: "Growing up can be tough and we are simply not doing enough to help the 
next generation to flourish. On average we spend 17p for each young person per day on youth services and this has 
to change. Young people need to be a part of our communities otherwise we spend billions dealing with the 
consequences of anti-social behaviour, crime and violence." 
1. The Youth Review was carried out by . 
A. the Government. 
B. young people. 
C. a charity, with support from the Government. 
D. a charity, with support from a company. 
2. According to Lily Allen, the main message from young people is . 
A. they want more opportunities. 
B. they don't want to get into trouble. 
C. they don't need more things to do. 
D. they don't agree that there is a crisis. 
3. What is the main cause of anti-social behaviour, according to young people? 
A. Boredom. 
B. Gangs. 
C. A lack of information. 
D. A lack of detention centres. 
4. What would the Youth Centres recommended by the report offer to young people? 
A. Help with their problems. 
B. A place to meet. 
C. A place to learn. 
D. All of A-C. 
5. What would be the purpose of electing Young Mayors, according to the text? 
A. It would help teach young people how the political system works. 
B. It would allow laws to be passed giving young people free public transport. 
C. It would give young people a voice in the community. 
D. It would make young people think more seriously about the issues that affect them. 
6. Choose the best summary of the report's conclusions: 
A. The Government needs to provide more money so that teenagers are less bored and more involved in their 
communities. 
B. Most teenagers are valuable members of the community, but the Government needs to focus on the small minority 
who become involved in crime. 
C. There are enough recreational facilities for young people, but more money needs to be spent on dealing with the 
consequences of teenage crime. 
D. Although we spend a lot of money for youth development, there is still too much anti-social behaviour, crime and 
violence among teeangers. 
PASSAGE 38 
HOW TO BE A GOOD PARENT: A TEENAGER'S GUIDE 
Sixteen-year-old Elite, who lives with her parents, Louise, 38, and Peter, 43, has written a book to tell us what 
parents of teenagers are doing wrong. 
All adults think teenagers are a nightmare. According to them, we're moody, argumentative, rude and disruptive. But 
have any adults ever stopped to think that perhaps they are responsible for the unpredictable and confusing way we 
behave? 
Take me, for instance. I may be a teenage nightmare, but this is all to do with my parents, not me. With my mother, I 
stamp my feet, storm out of shops in the middle of arguments and moan until I get my own way. Just last week, for 
example, I persuaded mum to buy me a pair of shoes that she had said I couldn't have. But my father, on the other 
hand, turns me into a shining example of teenage perfection. I do as he asks, I don't answer back and I happily accept 
that no means no. 
My parents have very different parenting styles. While my dad brings out the best in me, by being calm and 
reasonable and 
treating me like an adult, my mum, like so many other parents of teenagers, inadvertently makes me want to rebel by 
being combative and speaking to me as though I'm still a child. Last summer, after yet another row in a shop with my 
mother, I decided to start writing down the way I felt about things. 
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A few more rows later and I'd written more than 10,000 words of advice for parents. 
In December, having contacted various publishers, I signed a book deal. My parenting book, How Teenagers Think, 
is going to be published next year, the first of its type actually written by a teenager. Much of my book is based on 
my own experiences, but I've also interviewed my friends about their parents. Surprisingly, we all share similar 
views on what our parents are doing wrong. And it usually comes down to the fact that our parents care too much 
about us and don't want to let us grow up. For example, mum drove me crazy a few weeks ago when she kept 
worrying I'd broken my neck after I fell off my bike. Yes, my neck hurt, but I'd been to the doctor and he'd told me I 
was fine, so why did she want to take me to 
hospital? 
Instead of fussing around their teenagers like we're small children, parents could be using our desire to feel grown-up 
to their advantage. If we're behaving badly, why not tell us straight out that we don't deserve to be treated like an 
adult? Then well try to earn your respect. And why not reward us when we do behave maturely? Recently, I wanted 
to take a train to Portsmouth to see a friend - a journey I'd done with mum before. Dad was fine with the idea of me 
going alone, but it took weeks of arguments before mum agreed. Why was it such a big deal? 
Parents need to learn to trust teenagers. And when parents are worried about us, there is no point becoming angry – 
that just makes things worse. A few months ago, mum lost her temper when I told my parents I’d been receiving e-
mails from a stranger I'd met in a chartroom. She instantly banned me from using the Internet and we ended up 
having a huge row. But I'm not stupid. Most teenagers know talking to strangers online is not a good idea, so I'd told 
them what was happening - I don't want to get abducted, just as much as they don't want me to. So why be angry 
with me, mum? It makes me not want to confide in you. Surely it's better for me to feel you won't be angry, so I can 
talk to you? Many of my friends feel the same way. They end up not telling their parents what they're up to because 
they'll be cross. 
Everyone I interviewed for my hook loved the idea of being really close to their parents. Despite the way we behave, 
we all want close relationships with our parents. We also all know deep down that our parents usually do know best. 
But part of being a teenager is feeling free to take steps down new paths and learning from our own mistakes. Our 
parents have to unwrap the cotton wool they place around us and let us get on with what is just a natural phase of 
life. 
1. What happened when Ellie wanted a new pair of shoes? 
A. She asked her father nicely and he said yes. 
B. Her m am said no, then changed her mind. 
C. Ellie ji st went out and bought them. 
D. Her in im said she couldn't buy them so she didn't. 
2. Why does Ellie always obey her father? 
A. Because he sets a good example of how to behave. 
B. Because he always gives her what she wants. 
C. Because he is very strict. 
D. Because he doesn't get cross and talks in a reasonable way. 
3. Ellie's ideas about parenting . 
A. are shared by many people of her own age. 
B. are unusual for a teenager. 
C. come from a book called How Teenagers Think. 
D. have surprised many of her friends. 
4. Teenagers would respect parents more if . 
A. parents didn't argue with them. 
B. parents told them more often that they didn't deserve to be treated like adults. 
C. parents rewarded them more often. 
D. they didn't treat them like little children. 
5. How does Ellie react to her mum's lack of trust? 
A. It makes her feel stupid. 
B. It makes her tell her mum exactly what is happening in her life. 
C. it makes her not want to talk about herself to her mum. 
D. It makes her think her mum is stupid. 
6. Which sentence best summarises the main idea? 
A. Fathers are much better at dealing with teenagers than mothers because they understand them better. 
B. If parents trusted teenagers more and were less controlling, then they would get on much better with them. 
C. It's best not to tell your parents what you are doing because the}' will either get angry or worried. 
D. Adults have a poor opinion of teenagers, but they often behave badly themselves and set a bad example for 
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their children. 
PASSAGE 39 
ORGANIC FOOD: WHY? 
A recent NOP (1) poll found that 82 per cent of UK consumers want a return to traditional farming, even if it means 
paying more for food. To-day, many sins are laid of the feet of conventional farming. BSE, foot-and-mouth, 
pollution, obesity and the disappearance of sparrows have all been blamed on modern agriculture. And governments 
across Europe are keen to show they care. They are increasingly keen to be seen as promoting not conventional 
farming methods, but the new-age version: organic. Europe is now the biggest market for organic food in the world, 
expanding by 25 per cent a year over the past 10 years. The German agriculture minister wants to make 20 per cent 
of German agriculture organic by 2010, and Denmark's agriculture minister is herself an organic farmer. 
Organic farming is often claimed to be safer than conventional farming - for the environment, for our children and 
for us. Yet after lengthy and ongoing research worldwide, science continues to reject this claim. The UK's cross-
party House of Commons committee on agriculture announced that, despite exhaustive investigation, it had failed to 
find any scientific evidence to prove "that any of the many claims made for organic farming are always and 
invariably true". 
The notion that organic food is safer than "normal" food is contradicted by the fact that many of our most common 
foods are full of natural toxins. Yet educated Europeans are more scared of eating traces of a few, strictly regulated, 
man-made chemicals than they are of eating the ones that nature created directly. Why? For most of human history 
the more artificial and elaborate your diet, the better; when dominating nature was a constant battle, it was a sign of 
cultured living. The ancient Romans distinguished between foods not as proteins versus carbohydrates, or even meat 
versus vegetables, but as cultivated versus wild. Farmed animals were a more civilized food than game. Wine and 
bread, because they were created by man, were symbols of cultured living - only barbarians ate wild plants. Today, 
Europeans, surrounded by plentiful food, fear not nature, but science. Our obsession with the ethics and safety of 
what we eat with antibiotics in animals, additives, GM foods, and so on - are symptomatic of a highly technological 
society that has lost faith in its ability to put technology to a positive end. In this context, the less touched by human 
hand something is, the more virtue we see in it. 
A dominant contemporary fear is that we are wrecking nature. This is the real significance of the NOP poll. It is not 
a vote of positive support for "traditional" or organic farming - about which most of us are blissfully ignorant - but 
rather a vote against human intervention in the countryside. 
(1) NOP - National Opinion Polls: a leading market research organisation. 
1. According to paragraph one. 
A. European governments support organic farming. 
B. the reason why British consumers turn organic is obesity. 
C. modern agriculture is responsible for environmental degradation. 
D. the British believe traditional farming could be cheaper. 
2. What information does paragraph two provide? 
A. Organic farming is safer for the environment than for people. 
B. No proof has been found that conventional farming is worse than organic. 
C. The committee on agriculture raised objections to organic farming. 
D. The research on organic food was not entirely reliable. 
3. What does the author say about the ancient Romans? 
A. They didn't appreciate the meat of wild animals. 
B. They preferred meat to bread and vegetables. 
C. Their diet was healthier than that of modern Europeans. 
D. They introduced the distinction between proteins and carbohydrates. 
4. Which of the following is closest to the author's opinion? 
A. Organic food is favoured by those who support modern technology 
B. In ancient times people couldn't afford organic food. 
C. The British are more organic-oriented than other nations. 
D. Many people don't know much about organic farming. 
PASSAGE 40 
TO BECOME WEALTHY 
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As a kid, I always wanted to become wealthy. I knew if I could achieve this, I would be able to consider myself 
successful. At the time, I had no worries and felt my happiness would be based on whether I could fulfill all my 
needs and wants. My simple philosophy of that time was if I was rich, I would definitely be content with my life. 
My father always stressed his belief that happiness includes much more than money. I can remember him lecturing 
me about how money does not make an individual happy; other things in life such as: health, family, friends, and 
memorable experiences make a person genuinely happy. At this time in my life, I took what my dad said for granted 
and did not give any thought to his words. All I could see was the great life my cousins had because they had 
everything a kid ever dreamed of. 
At a young age, I noticed society was extremely materialistic. The media seemed to portray the wealthy as happy 
people who add value to our society. My opinions did not change; in high school Í still sought a career that would 
eventually yield high salary. I still felt that the possibility of living life from paycheck to paycheck would 
automatically translate into my unhappiness. However, things changed when I decided to take an internship in the 
accounting department for the summer after my second year of college. 
Starting the first day on the job in the accounting department, I found myself extremely bored. I was forced to do 
monotonous work, such as audit eight thousand travel and expense reports for a potential duplicate. In addition, I had 
to relocate away from friends and family in order to accept the position. I was earning the money I always wanted; 
however, noticed that having money to spend when you are by yourself was not satisfying. 
Í began to think back to what my dad always said. After a few months in the job, Í truly realized that money does not 
bring happiness. A more satisfying experience for me would have been doing an ordinary summer job for far less 
money. For me to understand that concept, it took an experience as painful as this one. i often contemplated how 
much money it would take me to do this as my everyday job. I concluded whatever the salary for this position I 
would never be capable of fulfilling a happy life and making a career out of this job. 
As Í looked forward to the summer to draw to a close, I truly comprehended the meaning of my dad's words. 
Contrary to my prior beliefs, I firmly believe through experience that money cannot make a person happy. The term 
"wealth" is a broad term, and I believe the key to happiness is to become wealthy in great memories, friends, family, 
and health. This I believe. 
1. In his childhood the narrator's idea of happiness was to . 
A. get what he wanted. 
B. live an interesting life. 
C. be an influential person. 
D. make other people happy 
2. The narrator heard what his father used to say, but did not .. 
A. believe him. 
B. agree with him. 
C. understand him. 
D. think over his words. 
3. From his early childhood till he finished school the narrator was convinced that. 
A. society was extremely unfair. 
B. media added value to society. 
C. money was the only thing that ensured happiness. 
D. the wealthy could not spend money properly. 
4. After the second year in the college the narrator decided to . 
A. start to work. 
B. quit his studies. 
C. change the college. 
D. take a summer course. 
5. The narrator's internship proved that . 
A. it was not a money-making job. 
B. he had chosen the wrong job. 
C. he could not cope with professional tasks. 
D. he had to get rid of his family and friends to keep the position. 
6. It became obvious to the narrator that he .. 
A. needed to think of another career. 
B. would like to work only in summer. 
C. would like to have a higher position. 
D. preferred ordinary non-professional work. 
7. The summer for the narrator was .. 
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A. monotonous and lonely. 
B. dragged out and boring. 
C. dynamic and satisfying. 
D. difficult but inspirational 
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