Read the passage carefully.

Then answer the questions on the basis of what is stated or

implied.

The teenagers of the 1990s will surely and are influenced by families and
be remembered as the ambitious 45 schools. Coherent and realistic life plans
generation. Overwhelmingly, teenagers are especially useful for choosing a path
today expect to graduate from college and that leads to success in adulthood. Plans
5 work as professionals. Large numbers give adolescents a sense of order,
expect to become physicians, lawyers, or encouraging them to engage in strategic
business managers; few would consider 50 effort and sustain high levels of
working as machinists, secretaries, or motivation, and help them use familial and
plumbers. organisational resources.
10 Contrary to popular descriptions of Teenagers with high ambitions but no
teenagers as slackers, the majority of clear life plan are misaligned; they are
young people graduate from college, do 55 drifting dreamers who have limited
not use hard drugs, do not commit acts of knowledge about their chosen
violence, and do not have babies in their occupations, about educational
15 teenage years. Most adolescents are requirements, or about future demands for
concerned about their future and believe these occupations. Without such
that obtaining a bachelor’s degree is the 60 information, their life plans are neither
necessary first step in moving up the realistic nor well formed. These drifting
economic and social ladder. dreamers come from all racial and ethnic
20 Although ambitious, many groups and all social issues.
adolescents find it difficult to fulfil their
dreams. Often unaware of the steps that
they can take to help them achieve their 41. The writer’s attitude to teenagers of the
ambitions, most teenagers begin the nineties is
25 transition from high school to college or to A. negative
the labour market without a clear B. positive
educational or career path. However, C. indifferent
anchoring ambitions in an understanding D. hostile
of the relationship between educational
30 credentials and later employment 42. According to paragraph one (lines 1–9),
opportunities can be advantageous. the expectation of most teenagers is to
Some adolescents have become
complementary educational and A. technicians
occupational goals, or what we call B. artists
35 aligned ambitions. These teenagers know C. professionals
the type of job they want and how much D. business persons
education they need to get it. They are
more likely to select a path or construct a 43. Most teenagers hope to graduate with a
life plan that enhances their chances of A. high school certificate
40 reaching their occupational goals. B. college degree
Life plans are important for C. university certificate
transforming ambitions from dreams to D. bachelor’s degree
everyday goals. Such plans vary in form