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Read the following passage and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the article. Write your answers in the numbered boxes. 

Too young to be famous? 

The machine that is celebrity culture has given us the meteoric rise and fall of the child actor, with plenty of cautionary tales to point to and ask if something should have been done to prevent them. Recently, the Chinese government took the extreme and unprecedented measure of banning the children of celebrities from appearing in any type of reality TV programming, in an effort to prevent the manufacturing of child stars. It would appear that perhaps limiting the exposure a child has to fame serves to protect and ensure a solid, stable upbringing. 

The pressure of fame is undoubtedly onerous, even for adults, who, despite growing up out of the spotlight, sometimes buckle under the stress of stardom they achieved later in life and exhibit all manner of behavioural disorders after their stardom has waned. The same can be said of child actors, but the effect is seemingly multiplied by the fact that, if achieving stardom as children, their view of reality is possibly warped and they may never even have the chance to acquire the necessary coping skills. But given that some child actors in fact, most - can make a go of their careers into adulthood, are children really so incapable of handling such pressure or is there actually no problem at all? 

Banning children from acting has an element of common sense to it, but imagine, if you will, television programmes, films and so forth absent of children. As this sort of media is supposed to reflect real life, it would seem surreal if there were no children in these stories, as if children had ceased to exist altogether. While the Chinese government's move to limit the exposure of children may seem well intentioned, at least on the surface, it is not entirely 

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realistic to say that children are not allowed to appear on the small or big screen. Of course, they are applying it to one particular media that of reality TV; nonetheless, is such a ban sensible for any type of media? Shared By Angels of Otto Channel 

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Upon closer examination of the phenomenon of the child star, we see examples both of success and failure. How many of each do we have? Is there a disproportionately high amount of failure in the lives of child actors if we look at the statistics and compare their problems with those of ordinary people? We see a child star fail and we immediately blame fame, but what about the success stories of other child actors such as Jodie Foster, Daniel Radcliffe and Leonardo DiCaprio, all of whom got their start as very young children? Are we to credit fame for their success in the same way we blame it for others' failures? 

In the case of the latter, these are the stars we know about, as they went on to achieve long-lasting fame, even top acting awards. Child stars are not always destined to eternally seek the limelight, however, so there are many cases of success stories that people often don't know about. Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, went on to pursue a doctorate in veterinary medicine. Shirley Temple, leading box-office star in the 1930s from the age of seven, became a politician and the first female US ambassador. Polish child stars and identical twin brothers Lech and Jarosław Kaczynski gave up acting and were respectively elected as president and prime minister of Poland, positions they held at the same time. 

Invariably, though, it's the catastrophic demise that we hear about, not just of child actors, of course, but when it does happen to them, we feel a mixture of sorrow and disbelief. To date, there is little statistical evidence to support the claim that fame and celebrity culture ruin the lives of child actors; the only proof we have is what we perceive to be true. Protections are in place, to an extent, to help ensure that children have as normal an upbringing as possible. California, for example, has enacted laws which mandate that children must continue with their educational studies exactly as they would if they weren't in films, even going so far as to require teachers on set if need be. In this vein, ensuring support for child actors may need to go further than the broad restrictions exercised by China. 

46. What can be said about the measure taken by the Chinese as regards child stars? 

A. It is a view fully endorsed by the author. 

B. It will prevent the phenomenon of child stars. 

C. It will prohibit children from acting in films. 

D. It's something they've never done before. 

47. In the second paragraph, the author implies that children 

A. are better equipped to handle fame than adults 

B. never learn coping skills when they are famous young 

C. may or may not suffer harmful effects of fame