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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】______.
【C7】
选项 A、surging
B、stretching
C、slipping
D、shaking
答案C
解析 空格前的while和still表示让步，暗示本题要与上文的popular形成对比，下文中继续介绍去年的销售额下降了6．7％和7．6％，可以判断既然迷你车型和豪华奢侈版车型依然走俏，能够带来总体业绩下滑的必然是中间的其他车型。选项[D]虽然也可以表示受到冲击，但是后文已经明确说了sales fell 6．7 percent。选项[A]表示“起伏”。选项[B]表示“伸展”，都不符合题意。故答案为[C]。
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