主题4 落实立德树人（课件）-【金版新学案】2024高考英语大二轮专题复习与测试（新教材）

主题四　落实立德树人 热点主题境练 情景1　精神品格 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2023·深圳市12月模拟) Over the last few years，social mobility (流动性) between the generations has become an important topic.Many possible factors that prevent children from moving further up the social ladder than their parents have already been investigated，such as financial resources，the educational system and genetics. Recently，Dr.Reto Odermatt (University of Basel) and Prof.Dr.Warn Lekfuangfu (Universidad Carlos Ⅲ de Madrid) conducted a study to investigate the connection between career aspirations(抱负) in social mobility and later life satisfaction. The basis for the study is a data set(数据集) that follows the lives of over 17，000 people in the UK who were all born in the same week in 1958，and continues to collect data to this day.Among other things，the data set gathers together information on each individual's childhood environment，the backgrounds of their parents，the participants' abilities，their aspirations in their youth，their jobs and their happiness as an adult. The authors used this database to investigate how the aspirations of children and young people affect their later life.And they eventually found that the educational and career aspirations held by participants as teenagers were among the most important predictors overall for their later success in education and careers.This indicates that ambitious career goals motivate people to invest more in their future career success. The opposite is also the case：unambitious career aspirations can be an important explanation for limited social mobility.The study showed that young people whose parents were less well educated did indeed have less ambitious career goals.“This cannot be explained solely(唯一地) by the differences in family income or in participants' abilities.It is more the case that inequality seems to begin early on，with their parents' aspirations for them，”reasons Odermatt.“We didn't expect parents' aspirations for their children to have such a strong influence.” “This