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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 manufacturers 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
58 A into B out of C along with D over
59 A happen B come C occur D fall
60 A science B creation C production D market
61 A there B here C where D which
62 A last B late C later D latest
63 A to B for C with D on
64 A Therefore B However C Besides D Otherwise
65 A Above B On C By D Over
【参考答案】 ：51. D 52. C 53. A 54. C 55. B 56. B 57. A 58. A 59. B 60. D 61. C 62. D 63. A 64. B 65. C