第6部分：完形填空（第51～65题，每题1分，共15分）
下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。
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 "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.
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
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
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