Read the text and use the words in the box to fill in the blanks.
Teenagers today live in a very competitive world. It is (1) important than ever to succeed at school if you hope to (2) a chance in the job market afterwards. It’s no wonder that many young people worry (3) letting down their parents, their peers and themselves. To try to please everyone, they take on too (4) tasks until it becomes harder and harder to balance homework assignments, parties, sports activities andfriends. The result is that young people (5) from stress.
There are different ways of dealing with stress. Everyone knows that caffeine, in the (6) of coffee or soft drinks, keeps you awake and alert. But caffeine is a drug which (7) become addictive. In the end, like other drugs, caffeine only leads to more stress. There are better (8) to deal with stress: physical exercise is a good release for stress, (9) it increases certain chemicals in the brain which calm you down. You have to get enough sleep to (10) stress and to stay healthy and full of energy.
