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 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】______.
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选项 A、profit
B、payment
C、income
D、budget

答案C

解析 考查名词辨析。文章首先指出,须田公之应该是日本汽车制造商的完美客户,接着指出他可以购买汽车的条件:年轻、工作好、收入高。因此形容词disposable后面的空白处是名词,与disposable构成搭配描述须田的财力状况。C.income意为“收入”,填入后disposable income意思是“税后收入”,符合句意,因此C项为正确答案。profit“利润”,budget“预算”,一般不用来描述个人的经济状况;payment“付款”,与文意相反。
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