Assessment: In your opinion, is social media more helpful or harmful to teens? Use specific details from the text to support your answer.

In your opinion, how does social media impact the way teenagers feel? Explain your answer.

Multiple Choice: Which detail best illustrates how social media can negatively affect teens?Need help with this skill? Review Part 2."In fact, the average U.S. teenager spends almost nine hours a day on digital devices." (Paragraph 1)"Depending on whether people notice your posts — and how positively they respond — your online interactions may be quite positive. Or not." (Paragraph 2)"Social media can make some teens feel depressed and isolated." (Paragraph 2)"But being glued to your phone or engrossed in a Snapchat story isn't all bad." (Paragraph 3)

Read the text and choose the best answers.Social media issuesIt is hard to image a Gen Z teenager growing up without smartphones and social media. (1) ________, while these sites provide entertainment and ways to connect with people, they can also harm young people.One of the risks is cyberbullying, especially body shaming. Social media users often hide their identities online, so it is (2) ________ for them to post offensive comments or images. Social media can also make teens feel less (3) ________. As images of paper-thin models and glamorous 'influencers' with expensive cars and clothes are everywhere, teenagers start thinking that being slim and rich is the only way to be accepted in society and become successful. (4) ________, there is a risk that they meet bad people online, as well as come across harmful content.Parents can't ban teenagers from social networks (5) ________ it is actually impossible to do so.  Instead young people should learn how to stay safe on line. Parents and teachers play an essential role here as knowing how their children and students use the Internet is essential for (6) ________ them on line.Question 24.(1)A.ThereforeB.HoweverC.BesidesD.ThenQuestion 25.(2)A.impossibleB.dangerousC.easierD.more difficultQuestion 26.(3)A.confidentB.confidenceC.violentD.fashionableQuestion 27.(4)A.In additionB.ThereforeC.ThenD.HoweverQuestion 28.(5)A.whileB.for exampleC.althoughD.becauseQuestion 29.(6)A.promotingB.protectingC.preservingD.encouragin

Questions 2-3Multiple Choice: What word best describes the beliefs teens have about their peers because of social media?A. positiveB. unrealisticMultiple Choice: Which piece of evidence from the text best supports your answer to question 2?A. "Those likes and comments influence the kinds of posts teens put up– and leave up." (Paragraph 5)B. "Peer feedback plays a big role in how teens view themselves and each other, note Jacqueline Nesi and Mitchell Prinstein." (Paragraph 6)C. "All teens compare themselves to others. That's an important part of figuring out who you are as you grow up." (Paragraph 8)D. "Students' use of social media 'may form distorted perceptions of their peers,' Nesi says." (Paragraph 9)

Multiple Choice: According to the article, what is a positive reason why teens choose to use social media?A. to bond with othersB. to create artistic postsC. to learn how to be popularD. to practice communication skillsMultiple Choice: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to question 4?A. "Nesi speculates that unpopular teens may be more likely than popular kids to make 'upward' comparisons." (Paragraph 11)B. "That may happen because they simply have fewer real-life friends — and therefore fewer online connections." (Paragraph 12)C. "Since teens spend so much of each day connecting online, many adults worry that kids no longer know how to communicate in person." (Paragraph 14)D. "Teens want to hang out together, boyd says. Social networks let them do that…" (Paragraph 15)