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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 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. | 
