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【B1】______. He used to own Toyota’ s Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses 【B2】______ subways and trains. "It’ s not inconvenient at all," he says. 【B3】______, "having a car is so 20th century."
    Suda reflects a worrisome【B4】______in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal,【B5】______among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic devices.【B6】______mini-cars and luxury foreign brands are still popular, everything in between is 【B7】______. Last year sales fell 6.7 percent, 7.6 percent 【B8】______ you don’t count the mini-car market. There have been 【B9】______ one-year drops in other nations: sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007【B10】______a tax increase. But experts say Japan is【B11】______in that sales have been decreasing steadily【B12】______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【B13】______, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA)【B14】______a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. It found that a【B15】______wealth gap, demographic changes and【B16】______lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their【B17】______longer, replace their cars with smaller ones【B18】______give up car ownership altogether. JAMA【B19】______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【B20】______.
【B19】

选项 A、concludes
B、predicts
C、reckons
D、prescribes

答案B

解析 考查动词辨析。这句话说:“日本汽车制造商联合会______今年销售额会继续下降1.2个百分点”。空白处为及物动词,后接名词作宾语。B.predicts作及物动词,后可接名词,表示“预计,预测”。因为今年销售额会继续下降可以是一种预测,所以B项符合题意,正确。concludes,后接名词作宾语表示“结束”,不合题意;reckons后接名词作宾语表示“计算”,不合题意;prescribes“指示,规定”,不合文意。
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