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ⅠPop Stars Earn Much
Pop stars today enjoy a style of living which was once the prerogative only of Royalty. Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimp of their smiling, colorfully dresd idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven Rolls-Royces, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported, for, like Royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of Royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public. They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds which idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are astronomical.
And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation on an unprecedented scale. By today’s standards, the excess of Hollywood do not em quite so spectacular. A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The competition for the title ‘Top of the Pops’is fierce, but the rewards are truly colossal.
It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way. Don’t the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the rvices they perform to their companies and their countries? Pop star arn vast sums in foreign currency –often more than large industrial concerns –and the taxman can only be grateful fro their massive annual contributions to the exchequer. So who would be grudge them their rewards?
It’s all very well for people in humdrum jobs to moan about the success and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars reprent only the tip of the iceberg. For every famous star, there are hundreds of others
struggling to earn a living. A man working in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chon curity and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can earn. But a man who attempts to become a star is taking enormous risks. He knows at the outt that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top. He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure. But he knows, too, that there wards for success are very high indeed: they are the recompen for the huge risks involved and if he achieves them, he has certainly earned them. That’s the esnce of private enterpri.
1. The ntence Pop stars’style of living was once the prerogative only of Royalty means
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[A] their life was as luxurious as that of royalty. [B] They enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty.
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[C] They are rather rich. [D] Their way of living was the same as that of the royalty.
赐予者2. What is the author’s attitude toward top stars’high income?
12月 英文[A] Approval. [B] Disapproval. [C] Ironical. [D] Critical.
pest是什么意思3. It can be inferred from the passage.
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[A] there exists fierce competition in climbing to the top. [B] People are blind in idolizing stars.
[C] Successful Pop stars give great entertainment. [D] The tax they have paid are great.
a4. What can we learn from the passage?
[A] Successful man should get high-income repayment. [B] Pop stars made great contribution to a country.
[C] Pop stars can enjoy the life of royalty. [D] Successful men reprent the tip of the iceberg.
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5. Which paragraph covers the main idea?
cusp[A] The first. [B] The cond. [C] The third. [D] The fourth.
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witnesdYou hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesn’t feel goo d. Why doesn’t ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modern classic becau it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours.” After World War II, the dre ad of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.
