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Generation Y gets called a lot of names. Personal finance advisers call gen Y-ers spendthrifts. Marketers consider them brand-lo

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问题     Generation Y gets called a lot of names. Personal finance advisers call gen Y-ers spendthrifts. Marketers consider them brand-lovers. Pop psychologists describe them as coddled products of helicopter parents: a generation that can barely survive in the real world on its own. But one of their defining characteristics—their talent as consumers, derived from growing up in the Internet age as well as experiencing the most recent recession—has been largely ignored. As a result, many of the companies trying to win them over are doing it all wrong.
    Gen Y likes to feel influence and power. They like to feel that companies are serving them and are really disgusted at the idea of being taken advantage of. These relatively new consumers are also on the lookout for potential frauds and bad deals, and are alert to the first sign that they are being manipulated.
    For the most part, banks, retailers, and other companies have failed to embrace this generation’s new mind-set. Banks further corrode the trust of many young customers, who already regard financial institutions with suspicion, every time they blast off a good deal of product offers. "People feel like they’re getting bombarded with irrelevant offers," says Ron Shevlin, senior analyst at Aite Group, a research and advisory firm.
    In the retail sector, traditional lifestyle advertising has become as outdated as low-rise jeans. Aber-crombie & Fitch’s reliance on its "cool and sexy" collegiate image no longer resonates with 20-somethings who now set a priority on saving money over following the latest fashion trends. "These consumers are very adept at Internet searches and feel comfortable price-comparison shopping," says Stephanie Noble, associate professor of marketing at the University of Mississippi. Instead of feeling embarrassed about being "cheap," they have a sense of accomplishment at finding the lowest price, Noble adds. That’s not to say gen Y doesn’t also love brands. The brands that resonate are the brands that provide value.
    That focus on value can work in retailers’ favor, if they know how to exploit it. Nita Rollins, a trends expert at Resource Interactive, a digital marketing agency, urges companies to embrace the kind of secondhand things transaction popular on sites such as Craigslist and eBay. A snowboarding company, for example, could allow customers to trade in their used snowboards for a discount on their next purchase. Such a program would show that the company "is cool enough to know customers want to recirculate their possessions," says Rollins. If the company refinished the secondhand snowboards it collected and resold them, it would show that it was in tune with gen Y’s interest in sustainability, too, she adds. "This trend of ’ unconsumption,’ where people don’t just spend less but also try to repurpose what they’ve already got, is here to stay. "
    That other defining characteristic of the demographic—love of and access to technology—has led some companies astray in their marketing efforts, especially on social networking sites such as Facebook. If you’re a company, don’t tell gen Y-ers about yourself. Instead, just let them know what you can do for them, and if you’re lucky, they’ll tell their friends. And that brings up one more name you can call gen Y: influential.
The first paragraph intends to tell us that Gen Y-ers are______.
选项 A、spendthrifts
B、brand-lovers
C、well-protected children
D、informed consumers
答案D
解析 第一段前四句主体介绍他人对Y一代的看法：挥霍无度、追逐品牌、娇生惯养；随后作者转折指出这些看法忽视了Y一代的最主要特征：天才消费者，并指出原因：网络发达且经济不景气所致；最后指出：商家对Y一代的销售策略有误。可见，[D]选项“信息灵通的消费者”最接近段落主旨。
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