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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 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】______.
【C15】
选项 A、quickening
B、widening
C、strengthening
D、lengthening
答案B
解析 考查形容词辨析。空白处为gap的定语。根据上下文，此处意为“不断扩大的财富差距”。B．widening意为“正在扩大的”，符合题意，为正确答案。quickening“正在加快的”，strengthening“正在加强的”，lengthening“正在加长的”，均不合题意。
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