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Teen depression can even affect growth and development. Adolescence may be delayed, especially if the teen is not eating enough.
Abstract thinking skills and the ability to concentrate are both negatively affected by depression. Although this is also true of adults, teen’s thinking abilities are constantly called upon and evaluated at school, so there can be major, early consequences such as school failure. Difficulties with problem solving may make it more difficult for the teen to seek help or to benefit from it.
Teens are at a stage of life in which major changes are not only possible but inevitable. They are used to change and may therefore be able to recover from a depression and its effects more completely or more quickly than an adult. This is not to say that depression in teens is a passing stage that doesn’t need to be addressed, but rather that adolescence is a window of opportunity to personal growth.
Teens may also be more willing to believe that things have improved sooner than an adult would, perhaps because they have had less experience of failure and disappointment, and thus have less on which to base a gloomy outlook.
It can be difficult for teens to talk about what they are feeling, especially in the early stages. In this regard, they are no different from adults. Unlike an adult, who has had previous experience of grief or depression, a teen may not even realize that he feels sad.
Adults often feel embarrassed about being depressed, as if they had done something wrong. This is much more rarely the case with teens, who seems to view a depression as something that has fallen on them, or as someone else’s fault.
【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文, 介绍了青少年与成人在对待抑郁症上的不同感受。
1. What can we know from the third paragraph?
A. Teen depression will heal itself.
B. Changes are inevitable for adolescence.
C. Teens are quicker than adults in learning.
D. Adolescents have more opportunities.
【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第三段第一句可知, 青少年阶段, 重大的变化是不可避免的。故选B。
2. What will an adolescent feel when he is in the early stage of depression?
A. He will feel embarrassed.
B. He well understands his situation.
C. He is hardly aware of his depression.
D. He thinks he has done something wrong.
【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第五段内容可知, 青少年在抑郁症初期, 可能意识不到自己的难过心理。故选C。
3. What can be a suitable title of this passage?
A. Teens Are Easy to Be Influenced by Depression
B. Depression in Teens Is Just a Passing Stage
C. Teen Depression Is Worse Than Adult Depression
D. Teen Depression Differs From Adult Depression
【解析】选D。标题归纳题。本文自始至终将青少年抑郁与成人抑郁进行对比, 强调了二者的不同。故选D。
【知识拓展】长难句分析
Teens may also be more willing to believe that things have improved sooner than an adult would, perhaps because they have had less experience of failure and disappointment, and thus have less on which to base a gloomy outlook.
分析: that引导宾语从句; because引导原因状语从句; on which 引导定语从句修饰less, 该定语从句的正常语序为: base a gloomy outlook on less experience of failure and disappointment。
译文: 青少年也可能比成年人更愿意相信事情会很快好转, 这可能是因为他们经历的失败和失望较少, 因此对前景的悲观看法也较少。
