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2013年全国职称英语考试综合类押题试卷(1)

2013-03-19来源:和谐英语

　　第六部分：完形填空(第51--65题，每题1分，共15分)

　　阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空自给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案

　　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 $I00 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 tow rite 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. h. employees B. laborers 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