Many of today"s college students are suffering from a form of shock. Lisa is a good example of a student in shock. She is an attractive, intelligent twenty-year-old college 21 at a state university. Now, only three years later, Lisa is miserable. She has 22 her major four times and is forced to hold down two part-time jobs in order to pay her tuition. She suffers from sleeping and eating disorders and has no 23 friend. Sometimes she burst out crying for no 24 reason.
What is happening to Lisa happens to millions of college students each year. As a result, roughly one-quarter of the student population at any time will suffer from 25 of depression. Half of them will experience depression intense enough to call for 26 help. But many of them 27 the idea because they don"t want people to think there"s something wrong with them.
There are two reasons today"s college students are suffering more than in earlier generations. First is a weakening family support 28 . Today, with high divorce rate, the traditional family is not always available for support. Another problem is 29 pressure. In the last decade, tuition cost rose about sixty-six percent at public colleges and ninety percent at private schools. Most students, 30 , must work at least part-time. It can be depressing to students to be faced with the added tuition costs.
A. apparent I. intimate
B. automatic J. junior
C. consequently K. professional
D. consistently L. recalled
E. decline M. structure
F. delightful N. switched
G. finance O. symptom
H. financial