[A] apparent [B] automatic [C] consequently [D] consistently [E] decline

[F] delightful [G] finance [H] financial [I] intimate [J] junior

[K] professional [L] recalled [M] structure [N] switched [O] symptoms

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【C1】_____at a state university. Now, only three years later, Lisa is miserable. She has【C2】__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【C3】__friend. Sometimes she burst out crying for no【C4】_____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【C5】_____of depression. Half of them will experience depression intense enough to call for【C6】__help. But many of them【C7】_____the idea because they don’t want people to think there’s something wrong with them.

There are two main reasons why today’s college students are suffering more than in earlier generations. First is a weakening family support【C8】_____. Today, with the high divorce rate, the traditional family is not always available for support. Another problem is【C9】__pressure. In the last decade tuition costs rose by about sixty-six percent at public colleges and ninety percent at private schools. And【C10】_____, most students must work at least part-time. It can be depressing for students to be faced with the added tuition costs.

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