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北京地区成人本科学士学位英语统一考试（2010年上半年串讲班资料）? PartⅠ Reading Comprehension(30%) Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1 Question 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: An unhealthy obsession(迷恋)with celebrity(名人)culture is damaging the academic success of British students, a survey of teachers found on Friday. Many students are ignoring career aspirations to pursue the chance of fame instead, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) survey found. Almost two-thirds of teachers said sports stars were the type of celebrity that most pupils wanted to follow ,while more than half of students wanted to be pop stars. The celebrities students aspired to be most like, the survey said, were David and Victoria Beckham, arguably Britain’s most famous couple, Soccer player “Becks” topped the poll, with more than half the teachers saying their students modeled themselves on the 32 year-old. In the second place, with almost a third of the poll’s vote, was his 33 year-old wife and pop star “Posh”. In an era of reality television “Stars”, a majority of teachers said celebrity culture negatively impacted the aspirations of their pupils. Almost half of the 300 teachers polled said pupils tried to look like or behave like celebrities they most admired, fuelling fears that girls particularly dressed in “unsuitable” styles. “We are not surprised about infiltration(渗透)of celebrity culture in schools—it reflects the current media obsession with celebrity and the effect of celebrity culture on society as a whole,” ATL general secretary Mary Bousted said in a statement. “Celebrities can have a positive effect on pupils. They can raise pupils’ aspirations and ambitions for the future. However, celebrity culture can perpetuate(使不朽)the thought that ce