[单项选择]Teenagers are spending more money than ever. Just last year, 31.6 million teens spent 155 billion, according to the Northbrook, Illinois-based market research group Teenage Research Unlimited. Much of that money, of course, comes from parents. Shocked at how much money kids spend Maybe you haven’t checked the price tags lately on some of the younger generation’s must-haves. To some, such extravagant spending on the notoriously fickle young might seem outrageous. Why do some parents give in One factor is surely the sheer power of marketing through mass media. According to the group Adbusters, teenagers are exposed to an estimated 3,000 advertisements each day. Combine the ads with programming itself, like the fashion-, music- and skin-filled shows on MTV, and you’ve got a barrage of messages telling kids what they should own if they want to fit in. "The pressures on parents today are enormous," says Tom Vogele, a single father of twin 18-year-old girls in Newport Bea A. a market research company based in Illinois B. a spokesman for the Teenage Research Unlimited C. the base of the Teenage Research Unlimited D. the city where the spending survey was carried out
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