绵阳市2014高考英语阅读理解精品训练（十三）及解析.docVIP

绵阳市2014高考英语阅读理解精品训练（13）及解析 (2011·济南4月模拟，C) Just 25 years ago, the top three career hopes for young people in Britain were teacher, banker and doctor. Now，they want to be sports star, pop star and actor，according to a survey by the Guardian newspaper. Rachel, a character in the popular TV show Glee, may be said to speak for British teenagers. “Nowadays being nobody is worse than being poor，”he said. Emma Brockes, a reporter with the Guardian, believes it is “the bad influence of celebrity(名人)culture” that is to blame.“When children Wanted to be doctor, it wasnt because they were really more interested in the functions of human organs than they are now，they go where the respect is.” she wrote. It could explain why there has been such an increase in levels of anxiety and depression. Dr Carlo Strenger of Tel Aviv University, studied the sense of self for his new book The Fear of Insignificance：Searching for Meaning in the 21st Century. He told the Daily Mail that young people now are “affected by the close connection to the global entertainment network, which has turned ranking and rating people according to wealth and celebrity into an obsession (痴迷) ”． “As humans，we naturally measure ourselves to those around us, but now we live in a global village. We are comparing ourselves with the most ‘important’ people in the world and finding ourselves wanting，” he said. Today, even high achievers constantly fear that they are insignificant when they compare themselves to success stories in the media. The way out? Simply stop measuring your achievement through a fantasy of wealth and celebrity. Dr Carlo Strenger said that it was a process called “active self-acceptance through a constant search for self-knowledge through life”. “The fear of insignificance can only be overcome through strong individual and cultural identity over and above measurable achievement，” he said. 随着时代的发展，人们的追求在不断变化，在全球网络影响与日俱增的时代，成为名人成了人们追逐的目标。 8．Nowadays，young people in Britain want to ________. A.