Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box．Each word can only be used once．Note that there is one word more than you need．
| A．survey B．off C．better D．care E．conducted F．differed． G．personal H．prepared I．contrast J．differences |
GAN Xiaolin, 18, only gets half a day __1__ school every week since the Hubei student started senior high school．Every day, he takes core （核心的） courses from 7:10 am to 10:30 pm．
Sometimes, Gan feels extremely stressed from the heavy workload．But he hopes that his three years of hard work toward the college entrance examination will change his life for the _2_．
Gan is a typical Chinese student, as shown in a recently released survey．The new survey, which was __3__ by the China Youth and Children Research Center and other foreign institutions, polled（调查） about 4,000 high school and vocational school students in China, Japan, the United States and South Korea．
The five biggest frustrations listed by all the young people were: an over-busy school life, an empty_4__ life, dissatisfaction with their appearance, a lack of time for exercise and friends, and no spare money．
Although some of the teenage problems were universal, there were big _ _5_ between the students when it came to the time they spent on schoolwork．
For example, Chinese students spent the most time at school and on homework．Nearly 80 percent of them spent at least eight hours a week in school, and 56．7 percent spent two or more hours on their homework．By_6_, only about 25 percent of US students, 20.5 percent of Japanese students, and 15 percent of Korean students had more than two hours of homework each night．
The responses from the Chinese students also __7__ significantly from their peers （同龄人）in the other three countries when asked about their life goals．
Only 16．7 percent of Chinese students said that they didn't __8__ much about their future, while the figure for that category was 72．4 percent for US students, 59．1 percent for the Japanese and 58．2 percent for the South Koreans．The _9_ found that Chinese students were more motivated than the other students to work hard for a better life．