Many young people like pop stars and international movie stars rather than famous people about history of their countries. What is the causes? What measure can be done to tackle the problem? 

题目大意：

年轻人喜欢流行歌星和电影明星，而不是本国的历史名人。是什么原因造成的？有什么解决办法？

思路：

报告类题型。原因从最相关的群体找，同青年相关问题，多是可以从媒体的误导和学校教育来找原因。解决办法，针对原因，逐一应对。

审题，找出关键词

▷ young people：青年人（限定讨论范文，也暗示青年的相关问题，一般可以从学校和媒体方面找原因）

▷ pop stars and international movie stars：明星（明星很多是同媒体宣传相关）

▷ famous people about history：历史名人（历史相关，可以联系到学校的教育原因）

梳理提纲如下

高分范文

It has long been a problem that younger generations are more fascinated by celebrities in vanity fair than those historic figures in text books. To me, it seems to be a symptom of a trouble to which the media and schools are the answers. 

The primary culprit of this phenomenon is the misleading effect of modern media. Living in a material world today, the youth are inundated with ubiquitous coverages of pop and movie stars the world over, particularly those sensational gossips and scandals online to increase ratings. As a result, exposed to these reports for a long time, young minds are unconsciously distracted by or even get addicted to those low-quality stories.

But the problem is not the consequence of just media, the education of schools should be another reason to blame. If more adolescents prefer stars in magazine covers to the heroes in history books, chances are the education model in schools is not attractive enough for students.

However, it is not the moment to be pessimistic for the problem, while there are some practical solutions to curb this trend. Firstly, the government can have a role to play, by initiating regulations to prohibit media from over publicizing news of entertainment. In contrast, more documentaries on history and culture should be encouraged to be broadcasted more frequently. Also, schools could arrange more tours to historical museums, while teachers should share more anecdotes of historical figures in lectures, thus cultivate young students’ interests in history of their country.

If these measures could be implemented, I would say the young minds would be reversed from their infatuation of modern idols. With the concerted efforts by government, media and reformed education method, a poem by Dylan Thomas could be as popular as the gossip of Beckham’ divorce.

相关词汇积累

1、Be fascinated by

释义：迷；迷醉;

Take a boat trip, and you will be fascinated by the peaks along the river.

坐上船游览, 你就会被河岸的山峰所吸引.

Babies may be fascinated by animated films while teenagers are amused by comedies.

婴孩也许由生气蓬勃的影片迷住当少年也许由喜剧发笑.

2、Celebrity

释义:名人，知名人士; 名流; 名声; 名誉;

Does he find his new celebrity intruding on his private life?

他是否感觉到他最近的成名侵扰了他的私生活？

At 62, Brian found the celebrity and status that had eluded him for so long.

布赖恩在62岁时获得了多年来未能得到的名望和地位。

Joanna has finally made it to the first rank of celebrity after 25 years as an actress.

乔安娜当了25年演员后，终于跻身女明星之列。

3、Vanity fair

释义:名利思想;

4、Culprit

释义:犯人，罪犯; 肇事者，被告人;

About 10% of Japanese teenagers are overweight. Nutritionists say the main culprit is increasing reliance on Western fast food.

大约10%的日本青少年超重。营养学家指出主要原因是对西式快餐越来越依赖。

He knows the culprit but is not letting on.

他知道罪犯是谁，但却闭口不说。

The police put the culprit in jail.

警方把罪犯投入监狱.

5、be inundated with

翻译:被淹没了

6、sensational

释义:轰动的; 耸人听闻的; 极好的; 绝妙的;

Her voice is sensational.

她的嗓音非常动听。

Experts agreed that this was a truly sensational performance.

们一致认为这的确是一场精彩绝伦的演出。

It is only the sensational that sells news magazines.

只有轰动性的事件才能促进新闻杂志的销售。

7、gossips

释义:流言( gossip的名词复数 ); 闲谈; 爱拨弄是非的人; 八卦;

In our absence the office gossips are probably having a field day.

我们不在的时候，办公室里大概谣言四起了吧。

What frightful gossips people are, even one'sbest friends.

人们散布流言蜚语，哪怕是自己的朋友也不例外。

She's with me at the house. Let the gossips do their worst.

她跟我待在这间房子里, 让人们去说三道四吧.

8、scandals

释义:丑事( scandal的名词复数 ); 流言蜚语; 闲话; 诽谤;

Rumours of financial scandals have come bubbling back to the surface.

有关财务丑闻的谣言接连不断地冒出来。

The City's reputation has been sullied by scandals like those at Lloyd's.

类似劳埃德保险公司的那些丑闻令伦敦名声扫地。

I'm sick of reading headlines involving the Kennedys in sex scandals.

关于肯尼迪家族性丑闻的新闻标题都让我读得腻烦了。

9、increase ratings

翻译:提高收视率

10、be distracted by

释义:被…搞得心烦意乱，被…搞得要发狂;

I can't let myself be distracted by those things.

我不能因为那些事情让自己分神。

The child may be distracted by extraneous sounds.

孩子可能会被不相干的声音干扰.

And let them be distracted by the spectacle.

并且让他们被场景分了心.