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不再是X世代，現在是E世代

 After 'Gen X', Today's Young Might be ‘Gen E’

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Americans like to give names to 1._________. We call those who lived through World War II, the “2._________ Generation;” those who came of age reading the beatnik poets of the  3._________, the “4.________ Generation;” those for whom the reckless investors in the 1970s were role models, the “5.________ Generation;” and those who grew up disaffected and cynical at the end of the 20th Century, “Generation 6._________.”

But we can’t seem to agree on a name for the millions of people today - young people, especially - who are flooding the 7._________ with their own stories, music, films and art.

A survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 8._________ percent of Internet users are 9.________creative content and posting it on the web. The survey found that it would be only a slight exaggeration in some cases to say that young people spend most of their free, waking hours on the Internet or using hand-held 10._________, blogging, texting or posting their original work.

Some people call these do-it-yourselfers “Generation  11.________,” for the creative content they post. Or C for “12._______  _________,” meaning they’re average people sharing their observations with the world. Another name some have given them is “Generation 13._________” for “entitled,” because these folks feel they have just as much right as established writers or musicians or filmmakers to be heard.  

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Answers:

1. generations

2. Greatest

3. Beat

4. 1950s

5. Me

6. X

7. Internet

8. 44

9. generating

10. devices

11. C

12. citizen media

13. E