Unit 04

Further Reading

고등학교      반      번 이름

Ireland is a country of young people, nearly 50 percent of its people are under twenty-five. Fifty years ago, the Catholic church was full of old men, and they decided what people could do. Life was difficult for women and young people. Today, the church is important, but the ideas of women and young people are important too. Two of Ireland’s presidents were women, Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese. For Ireland’s young people the future is about pop music and computers as well as farming and horses. Ireland is not a poor country any more; a lot of business people come to Ireland and build factories. Now, perhaps 10 percent of Ireland’s population are people who have come from other countries to find work there. Many come from Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe, and others come from China, Japan, Korea and countries in Africa. Today, young Irish people do not leave their country to find work; they can find work at home.

위 글을 읽고, 주제문을 고르시오.

① Many things are changing in Ireland.

② Ireland is a country of young people.

③ The Catholic church has not changed much.

④ The past is important to Irish people.

⑤ The future is about women and old people.