单项选择题

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 (1) should be: "what job are you doing now" American companies are employing more and more young people as consultants to evaluate products for child (2) . The 12-to-19 (3) 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 (4) markets. One (5) , Teenage Research Unlimited, has panels (评判小组) of teenagers who give their verdict (裁决) on products (6) jeans (牛仔裤). Another company, Doyle Research Associated, holds two-hour sessions in a room (7) the "imaginarium (想象室)." Children are encouraged to play games to get (8) a creative mood. They have to write down any ideas that (9) into their heads.
Some manufacturers prefer to do their own (10) research. The software company Microsoft runs a weekly " Kid’s Council" at its headquarters in Seattle, (11) a panel of school children give their verdict on the (12) products and suggest new ones. One 11-year-old, Andrew Cooledge, told them that they should make more computer games which would appeal equally (13) boys and girls. Payments for the work are increasingly attractive. Andrew Cooledge was paid $250 and given some software. (14) , 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. (15) their mid-teens they can be told that they are too old.

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