You should be a genius to fill ALL the gaps with appropriate words.

Once, children had ambitions to be doctors, explorers, sportsmen, artist, or scientists. Now taking……1……lead from TV, they just want to be famous. Fame is no ……2…… a reward for gallant service or great, perhaps even selfness endeavor. It’s an end in ……3.….. and the sooner it can be achieved the sooner the lonely bedroom mirror can be replaced by the TV camera and flash gun the ……4..…. .   Celebrity is  profession ……5……. the moment, a vainglorious vocation which, ……6………some 18^th century royal court, seems to exist largely……7…….that the rest of us might watch and be amazed …….8……..its members live …...9……..  their lives in public, like self-regarding members of some glittering soap opera.

Today, almost ……10....….can be famous. Never has fame ……11…… more democratic, more ordinary, more achievable.   …12…… wonder it is a modern ambition. It’s easy to see why people crave a celebrity, ……13……. generations are reared on the instant fame ……14……by television who want to step out of ……15…… limousine……16……the flash lights bouncing ……17……… them.     ……18….. doesn’t want to be the center of attention at some time in their lives?

Modern celebrity, peopled by largely vain and vacuous, fills a ……19……. in our lives. It peoples talk shows, sells goods and newspapers and rewards the famous for well, …20…… famous.