They are among the 250,000 people under the age of 25 who are out of work in the Netherlands, a group that accounts for 40 percent of the nation’’s unemployed. A storm of anger (47)______ at the government-sponsored (政府资助的) youth center, even among those who are continuing their studies.
"We study for jobs that don’’t exist," Nicollete Steggerda, 23, said.
After three decades of prosperity, unemployment among 10 member nations of the European Community has (48)______ 11 percent, affecting a total of 12.3 million people, and the number is (49)______.
The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is (50)______ across the Continent. The title of a rock song "No Future" can now be seen written on the brick walls of closed factories in Belgium and France.
Recent surveys have found that the increasing (51)______ in the last few years over the deployment (布局) in Europe of North Atlantic Treaty Organization missiles and the possibility of nuclear war have clouded European youths’’ (52)______ in the future.
One form of (53)______ tends to put the responsibility for a country’’s economic troubles on the large numbers of "guest workers" from Third World nations, people welcomed in Western Europe in the years of prosperity.
Young Europeans, brought up in an extended period of economic success and general (54)______, seem to (55)______ Americans more than they do their own parents. (56)______ enjoyment has given them a sense of expectation, each the right, to a standard of living that they see around them.
"And so we pass the days at the discos, or meet people at the café, and sit and stare." Said Isabella Gcuit. "There is usually not much conversation. You look for happiness. Sometimes you even find it."
Word Bank
A) confidence B) projects C) chosen
D) boils up E) supports F) introducing
G) spreading H) stability I) protest
J) relying K) resemble L) argument
M) exceeded N) material O) climbing