Social problems

5. My neighbourhood looks terrible. All the buildings are covered with terrible-looking paintings. I hate the mindless …..
7. Unfortunately, the ….. rate keeps rising and a lot of people are on the dole.
8. In some countries it’s a serious problem, you can hear about bomb scares all the time.
12. There are many teenage ….. nowadays, children give birth to children.
13. People suffer from a variety of ….. , among others cancer and depression.
14. There are too many …..parent families, where especially mothers are the only people who bring up their kids.
16. People avoid paying taxes and many of them work on the black market, they are guilty of tax ….. .
18. This is when students miss lessons and hang out with friends instead being in school.
20. Health ….. system is understaffed and underfunded. People have to wait for treatments for ages.

1. Children are eating junk food. It comes as no surprise that they put on health so much.
2. In schools there is a problem of ….. . Stronger kids force the weaker ones to do things for them or to give them money.
3. This is when people don’t possess a house and don’t have permanent address, in this way they don’t stand a chance to take up a regular job.
4. Nowadays a lot of people cheat on their partners and engage in affairs.
6. Young people don’t have ambitions, they don’t attend lessons and as a result they ….. out of school.
9. In some countries people spend a lot of money in casinos and making bets.
10. There is a lot of ….. everywhere- on TV and in the street. People are not polite to each other any longer.
11. This happens when officials and those in power take money to do favours for people.
15. This happens when copyrights are violated, this especially concerns books, CDs and films.
17. Drug or alcohol ….. is when people are addicted to them.
19. Most European countries face the problem of ….. society. More people die than are born.