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Dan Miller is a 19-year-old business student in London. He’s also the CEO of a social media company that aims to reach five mill

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问题     Dan Miller is a 19-year-old business student in London. He’s also the CEO of a social media company that aims to reach five million young Brits by 2022. "Our mission is to be the next Linkedln, but for students," he says. Miller is an example of the youngest generation of innovators that will define how we work in years to come.
    It’s hard to give a definitive age range for Generation Z (also called "iGen"), as descriptions vary among experts. But roughly, the oldest members of this group are around 22, which means some are starting to leave school, to apply for jobs and make money. This generation grew up with social media, watching people like Justin Bieber go from YouTube obscurity to global fame. The importance of social media—both in how it’s shaped Gen Z and how Gen Z will use it to reshape the workforce—can’t be overstated.
    "This is a generation that has actively had entrepreneurial opportunities growing up — in many ways, if you’ve grown up managing your personal brand on Instagram, you’re much better wired to think of yourself as an individual brand instead of a cog in an organizational machine," says Arun Sundararajan, a business professor at New York University.
    Miller echoes this sentiment: "I think social media is a big influence—everything strikes us as, ’we can start our own company. ’" It’s not hard to see where he’s coming from: on YouTube alone, young people have launched their own business of reviewing makeup, unboxing new trainers or getting strangers to watch them play video games.
    For a generation where flexible work and the gig economy have always been career options, making money from a large online following is one of many "micro-entrepreneurial" ventures that has replaced the traditional career path. "This will be the first generation that actively embraces the micro-entrepreneurial jobs as their primary way of earning a living, rather than stable, full-time employment," says Sundararajan. "The one word is ’entrepreneurial’ — that’s the critical differentiator.
    But labelling Gen Z as "entrepreneurial" is a common mistake, says Jean Twenge. She is a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of iGen , a book about the post-Millennial generation. "Absolutely, they’re driven," Twenge says. "In some cases, it’s driven by fear, or ambition. They’re just not driven to take risk.
    Her book cites research from the University of Michigan: in 2015. over 55% of American high school students in their final year reported they were "willing to work overtime"—the highest that figure’s been since 1993. And in 2016, only 37% of university students said that "becoming successful in a business of my own" was important, compared to 50% of people the same age in 1984.
    This is the mindset of a generation that grew up during the Great Recession; "Millennials grew up in economic prosperity and thought everything [in life and in the workforce] would be easy," says Twenge. "iGen doesn’t have that illusion.
In the text Dan Miller is used as an example of________.
选项 A、starting up business as a student
B、taking advantage of social media
C、attaining the ambitious goals
D、representing innovative Gen Z
答案D
解析 本题是细节题。根据题干中的关键词Dan Miller定位至首段。该段前三句是有关丹.米勒的具体例子；第四句则概括说“米勒是最年轻一代创新者的代表，这些人将定义我们未来几年的工作方式”。结合丹.米勒的年龄以及第二段的内容可知，the youngest generation即指Generation Z，因此，丹.米勒在文中被用作“代表有创新精神的Z一代”的一个例子。 D项的innovative Gen Z是对文中the youngest generation of innovators的同义替换。故答案选D。A项“学生时期创业”和B项“利用社交媒体”虽都是客观事实，但不是文中引用丹.米勒经历的目的，故均排除；文章第二句与第三句分别提到了丹.米勒公司的“目标”和“使命”，但是并未实现，因此排除C项“实现宏伟目标”。
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