Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 29 to 35.
During adolescence, teenagers start to form independent adult identities of their own, and for many young people around the world, this means experimenting with different social groups. Deciding to join a particular group or subculture offers young people the opportunity to explore who they are and what they stand for. It allows them to start defining themselves outside of their immediate family circle, and can provide both a sense of identity and of belonging, 100. In our increasingly erconnected world, membership of particular groups can mean contact not only with other like-minded people locally, but also globally.
Over recent years, a far more localized subculture has been developing in Mexico, where a style of music known asTribal has evolved, complete with its own remarkable fashions. The hugely popular sound mixes traditional regional folk music with electronic dance. Young fans often identify themselves by combining futuristic elements with a basic farm worker look and wearing extremely long, pointy boots when dancing, often competitively against groups from other local towns.
Another well-known group is Goth who dye their hair black and usually wear black clothes, dark eyeliners and fingernails. Most of them resent being thought of as sad or angry. Instead, they see themselves as romantic, creative and able to find beauty in what others may see as ugly.
Of course, subcultures that develop in a particular arca can spread like wildfire in a matter of moments these days, thanks to the Internet. This is what's happened with the Scraper Biker subculture. Originally the obsession of a small group of young people in the San Francisco Bay area, scraper bikes are simply ordinary bicycles that have been modified by their owners, typically with decorated wheels and bright body colors. Much of the decoration is dome very cheaply, using tinfoil, reused cardboard, candy wrappers, and paint! The craze went global after a hip-hop video featuring these creations went viral. Scraper bikes can now be seen in cities all over the world. If the internet helps some subcultures grow, for others it's their main home. Otherkin - people who identify to some degree as non-human - have a massive online presence that's growing all the time. While some otherkin believe themselves to actually be, say, dragons or lions or witches foxes, others simply feel special connections to certain creatures found which to explore these feelings.