Professional Documents
Culture Documents
FINAL TEST ENGLISH INTERMEDIATE 1.docx 2022
FINAL TEST ENGLISH INTERMEDIATE 1.docx 2022
GRAMMAR
Write the correct word you can use the words given in brackets
VOCABULARY
READING
SOCIAL MEDIA USE MAY INCREASE TEENS RISK OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
For some adolescents and teenagers using social media like Twitter or Instagram can be relaxing
and cheap, but a new study which was published recently suggests that there is a dangerous price:
their mental health.
Young people who spend more than 3 hours a day on social media are susceptible to depression,
anxiety and other illnesses and are more likely to internalize bad feelings about themselves,
according to the study produced by Johns Hopkins University and the Bloomberg School of Public
Health.
The time that a teenager spends on social media may increase the risk of experiencing
cyberbullying, which has a strong association with depressive symptoms," according to the study,
when you see others' lives on social media platforms like Snapchat "may also expose adolescents to
idealized self-presentations that negatively influence body image and encourage social
comparisons."
Kira E. Riehm, the paper's lead author and researcher at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, says
that social media use "has increased dramatically in the past few decades among adolescents." But
it happens in a dangerous time, she says, because "adolescence is a time when a lot of mental health
problems can begin"
"It's important to consider that every minute that adolescents spend on social media, they're not
doing something else," says Riehm. “They don´t spend time with real friends face to face, or they
don´t do exercise or something else to help their mental health.
But it can be difficult to break the connection between young people and social media because it is
part of their daily life.
"A 2018 study found that 97% of adolescents say that they use at least 1 of the 7 most popular social
media platforms (YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit),"
according to the study. "Moreover, digital media use by adolescents is common: 95% say that they
have a smartphone, and almost 90% say that they are online at least several times a day."