这篇选自《每日邮报》的2018年高考英语阅读题比较长，删去了外刊原文的几小段，再替换了几个超纲词汇，其他部分几乎是原封不动搬过来了。本篇句子结构不算复杂，不提供参考译文，重点看一些词汇解析和句子结构分析。
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Miss Longfield warned that a generation of children risked growing up ‘worried about their appearance and image as a result of the unrealistic lifestyles they follow on platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, and increasingly anxious about switching off due to the constant demands of social media’.
risk：动词，表示“ 使…冒风险；担…风险，冒…的危险”；as a result of： 因此，由于；作为…的结果switch off①to turn off a machine, light, radio etc using a switch，关掉开关，例如：Don’t forget to switch off before you go.②to stop listening to someone，不再理睬，非正式用法，例如：He just switches off and ignores me.③to relax for a short time，（短暂地）放松，例如Switch off by listening to music.句子结构分析：
①Miss Longfield warned② that a generation of children risked growing up ③‘worried about their appearance and image ④as a result of the unrealistic lifestyles ⑤they follow ⑥on platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, ⑦and increasingly anxious about switching off⑧ due to the constant demands of social media’.
①是主句的主谓部分，②是宾语从句的主句，作warn的宾语；后面整个引号部分作为宾语从句②的原因状语，其中③和⑦并列，是形容词作原因状语的用法；④又是③的原因状语，⑧又是⑦的原因状语；⑤是定语从句，修饰限定lifestyles，⑥是地点状语。
参考译文：朗菲尔德警告称，这一代孩子在Instagram和Snapchat等平台上追随不切实际的生活方式，这让他们对自己的外表和形象感到担忧，再加上社交媒体不断要他们点赞，也让他们对关闭社交媒体越来越焦虑，这些都使这一代孩子面临成长危机。
She said: ‘What starts as fun usage of apps – children are using it with family and friends and to play games when they are in primary school – turns into an avalanche of pressure (tremendous pressure)when children really are faced with a cliff edge of social media interaction when they start secondary school.
an avalanche of sth：在昨天的解析中已经说过了，表示“雪片般飞来的某物，突然大量到来的某物”a cliff edge of social media interaction社交媒体互动的悬崖边缘句子结构分析：
主要来看看She said后面的直接引语“①What starts as fun usage of apps – ②children are using it with family and friends and to play games ③when they are in primary school –④ turns into an avalanche of pressure⑤ when children really are faced with a cliff edge of social media interaction⑥ when they start secondary school. ”
①是主语从句，两个破折号中间的内容是对前面这个主语从句的解释，用来说明“孩子在小学时开始使用社交媒体联系家人、朋友，还有打打游戏，社交媒体在那时候还是个有趣的应用程序”，理解整个句子的时候，可以先把破折号之间的内容拿出来理解；再看④才是这个句子的谓语和宾语部分。
"While social media clearly provides some great benefits to children, it is also exposing them to significant risks emotionally.
significant：重要的，重大的，影响深远的‘I am worried that many children are starting secondary school ill-equipped to cope with the sudden demands of social media as their world expands.’
She said children compared themselves to others online in a way that was ‘hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves’.
compare（A to B）：比较；对比in terms of：在…方面self-identity：自我认同参考译文：她说，孩子们在网上把自己和别人比较，这种方式“极大地损害了他们的自我认同，损害了他们的自信，也损害了他们发展自我的能力”。
Miss Longfield added: ‘Then there is this push to connect – if you go offline, will you miss something, will you miss out, will you show that you don’t care about those people you are following, all of those come together in a huge way at once.
miss out错失； 遗漏‘For children it is very, very difficult to cope with emotionally.’
The Children’s Commissioner for England’s study – Life in Likes – found that children as young as eight were using social media platforms such as Snapchat, WhatsApp and Instagram, largely for play.
However, the research – involving eight groups of 32 children aged eight to 12 – suggested that as they headed toward their teens, they became increasingly anxious online.
teens：青少年时期〔13到19岁之间的阶段〕By the time they started secondary school – at age 11 – children were already far more aware of their image online and felt under huge pressure to ensure their posts were popular, the report found.
However, they still did not know how to cope with mean-spirited jokes, or the sense of inadequacy(incompetence) they might feel if they compared themselves to celebrities or more glamourous (brilliant)friends online.
cope with：处理，应付；可用deal with替换；mean-spirited：小气的，吝啬的；小心眼的；无同情心的2012年考研英语(二)阅读真题中有个例句：
In The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, the economic historian Benjamin Friedman argues that both inside and outside the U.S.,lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean-spiritedand less inclusive,and have usually stopped or reversed the advance of rights and freedoms.在《经济增长的道德后果》(The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth)一书中，经济历史学家本杰明·弗里德曼(Benjamin Friedman)认为，不管是美国还是其它国家，长期的经济停滞或衰退几乎总会让社会变得更小气，包容性更差，而且通常会使得权利和自由停滞不前或者倒退。
inadequacy：a state of not being able or confident to deal with a situation 不胜任；缺乏信心；（同义词：incompetence ）a feeling/sense of inadequacy 感到无能；不称职之感还可表示“不充分；不足；不够”the inadequacy of our resources 我们的资源的贫乏，反义词：adequacyglamourous adj. 富有魅力的；迷人的；
The report said they also faced pressure to respond to messages at all hours of the day – especially at secondary school when more youngsters have mobile phones.
接下来说到学校、父母以及社交媒体公司分别可以做点什么。
The Children’s Commissioner said schools and parents must now do more to prepare children for the emotional minefield they faced online. And she said social media companies must also ‘take more responsibility’.
minefield 雷区They should either police(monitor) their websites better so that children do not sign up too early, or they should tailor (adjust) their websites to the needs of younger users.
police：做名词的用法就不说了。这里作动词，一般常用两个含义：①to control a particular activity or industry by making sure that people follow the correct rules for what they do控制、监督（某活动或行业）；同义词：monitor；例如：The agency was set up to police the nuclear power industry. ②to keep control over a particular area in order to make sure that laws are obeyed and that people and property are protected, using a police or military force动用警察或军队实施管制、维持治安；例如：The army was brought in to police the city centre.tailor：本义是“裁缝”，裁缝的工作就是根据顾客需要缝制衣服，所以，这个词逐渐衍生出它的动词含义：按需制作，定制；调整；Javed Khan, of children’s charity Barnardo’s, said: ‘It’s vital that new compulsory age-appropriate relationship and sex education lessons in England should help equip children to deal with the growing demands of social media.
‘It’s also hugely important for parents to know which apps their children are using."
compulsory ：规定的；强制的，强迫的；义务的；常见搭配：compulsory education/schooling 义务教育；compulsory subject必修科目age-appropriate适龄的equip： to prepare sb for an activity or task, especially by teaching them what they need to know 使有所准备；使有能力；例如：We must equip young teachers to deal with difficult children. 我们必须指导年轻教师如何应付不听话的孩子。
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