单选题
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 "Kid's 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.