&8226;Read the article below about Hikikomori.
&8226;Choose the best sentence to fill in each of the gaps.
&8226;For each gap 8-12,mark one letter(A-G)on your Answer Sheet.
&8226;Do not use any letter more than once.
&8226;There is an example at the beginning(0).
Hikikomori has become a major issue in Japan. Loosely translated as 'social withdrawal,' Hikikomori refers to the state of anomie into which an increasing number of young Japanese seem to fall these days. Socially withdrawn kids typically lock themselves in their bedrooms and refuse to have any contact with the outside world.
They live in reverse: they sleep all day, wake up in the evening and stay up all night watching television or playing video games.
(8) Their funk can last for months, even years in extreme cases. No official statistics are available, but it is estimated that more than one million young Japanese suffer from the affliction. One such young man was the protagonist of my latest novel, Symbiosis Worm.
Hikikomori is a consequence of the phenomenal growth of the Japanese economy during the latter half of the 20th century and the tremendous technological progress the country made during that time. Japanese youth could not afford to be socially withdrawn if their parents were not affluent enough to provide them a home, meals and extras that have come to be thought of as basics--audio and video equipment, software, mobile phones, computers. (9)