综合类B级：完形填空Child Consultants
These days， "what do you want to do when you grow up?" is the wrong question to ask children in the USA. The______(51) should be： "what job are you doing now?" American companies are employing more and more young people as consultants to evaluate products for child______(52)。The 12-to-19______(53) group spends more than $100 billion a year in the USA. Specialist agencies have been created to help manufaqturers ask kids about all the latest trends in clothes， food and______(54) markets. One______(55)， Teenage Research Unlimited， has panels (评判小组) of teenagers who give their verdict (裁决) on products______(56) jeans (牛仔裤)。Another company， Doyle Research Associated， holds two-hour sessions in a room ______(57)the "imaginarium (想象室)。" Children are encouraged to play games to get______(58) a creative mood. They have to write down any ideas that______(59) into their heads.
Some manufacturers prefer to do their own______(60)research. The software company Microsoft runs a weekly "Kids Council" at its headquarters in Seattle，______(61)a panel of school children give their verdict on the______(62) products and suggest new ones. One 11-year-old， Andrew Cooledge， told them that they should make more computer games which would appeal equally______(63) boys and girls. Payments for the work are increasingly attractive. Andrew Cooledge was paid $250 and given some software ______(64)，even if their ideas are valuable， the children will never make a fortune. They cannot have the copyright to their ideas. These are not jobs they can hold for long they are too old.______(65) their mid-teens they can be told that they are too old.
51
A.sentence
B.word
C.answer
D.question
52
A.employees
B.labourors
C.consumers
D.employers
53
A.age
B.year
C.time
D.generation
54
A.the
B.another
C.other
D.others
55
A.school
B.firm
C.store
D.college
56
A.as
B.like
C.of
D.with
57
A.called
B.calls
C.calling
D.call