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Chinese students in pursuit of an American education have helped drive up international enrollments at colleges across the United States. Every fall semester sees an increase of their number compared with the __ period of the previous year. There is no denying their __ benefits American colleges culturally and financially. Studying abroad is beneficial personally for Chinese students too, if they are prepared for certain challenges. The first challenge is the cost of studying at an American college. Typically Chinese parents pay. It is an expected part of the culture that they make big __ for their children, who will hopefully __ them in the future. Students can choose to work part time to earn some money and __ their parents of the financial burden. The second challenge is parental pressure. Some Chinese parents choose colleges for their children. In a new learning environment, teacher-student interactions are essential for a productive college career. However, Chinese parents’ lack of knowledge of American education could make their children suffer academically and emotionally when their __ for big research universities causes their children to miss out on learning and social opportunities offered by small and less __ liberal arts colleges. It is a __ of growing up for Chinese students when they have to obey their parents, but they must take more __ for their own lives. The greatest challenge of studying abroad is culture shock. It is hard, but if Chinese students can break out of their own groups and put their challenges in __, then they will gain more out of their experience of studying abroad.
Who is an “adult”? Many would __ having completed schooling, working steadily, living __ of one’s parents, marrying, and having children as the markers of adulthood, traditionally achieved between the late teens and the early thirties. However, compared with their parents’ generation, young people today are taking longer to complete their schooling, to settle into steady employment, to establish their own households, to get married, and to fulfill the __ to raise children. The psychologist Jeffrey Arnett describes the phase of life for those now between the ages of eighteen and twenty five as a period of relative independence from social roles and expectations. As such, __ adulthood provides some younger people, especially those who have access to parental resources and supports into their twenties, with new opportunities for exploring their __, particularly in the area of work, love, and worldviews. Those who do not have resources, however, __ problems. Many observers have thought about the factors that have made the transition from __ to adulthood more complex and variable. Some believe that industrialization, improved health, and increased life expectancies have changed the __ into which people are born in the early twentieth century. Others think that the rising cost of housing in some parts of the country explains why young people are increasingly likely to live with their parents. Still others suggest that because this generation’s parents has fewer children, they are able to provide support __ the needs of each child, allowing their children to prolong their dependence and lengthening the time it takes to complete their education and find __ employment and independent living arrangements.