Kimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japan’s car-makers. He’s a young, successful executive at an Internet-services co

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问题    Kimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japan’s car-makers. He’s a young, successful executive at an Internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable【C1】______. He used to own Toyota’s Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses【C2】______subways and trains. "It’s not inconvenient at all," he says.【C3】______. "having a car is so 20th century."
   Suda reflects a worrisome【C4】______in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal【C5】______. among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic devices.【C6】______mini-cars and luxury foreign brands are still popular, everything in between is【C7】______. Last year’s sales fell 6.7 percent, 7.6 percent【C8】______you don’t count the mini-car market. There have been【C9】______one-year drops in other nations: sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007【C10】______a tax increase. But experts say Japan is【C11】______in that sales have been decreasing steadily【C12】______time. Since 1990, yearly new-car sales have fallen from 7.8 million to 5.4 million units in 2007.
   Alarmed by this state of【C13】______. the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA)【C14】______a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. It found that a【C15】______wealth gap, demographic changes and【C16】______lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their【C17】______longer, replace their cars with smaller ones【C18】______give up car ownership altogether. JAMA【C19】______a further sales decline of 1.2 percent this year. Some experts believe that if the trend continues for much longer, further consolidation in the automotive sector is【C20】______.
【C10】

选项 A、liable to
B、in terms of
C、thanks to
D、in view of

答案D

解析 本句中提示德国销售额的下降与税收应该有因果关系,所以只需要选择符合此逻辑的表达即可。根据词组含义,可首先排除选项[A]liable to(倾向于)和[B]in terms of(就……而言)。选项[C]和[D]均有“由于”的含义,两者的区别在于:in view of是指将某种因素考虑在内,这里正是将税收的因素考虑在内,销售额下降,所以选项[D]正确。thanks to虽然也可以表示原因,但是往往在语义上表达令人高兴的或者中性的原因,用在句首或句中,税收增加对于企业来说绝对称不上好消息,所以选项[C]在语义上不妥。
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