2009年6月英語四級完形填空真題
Kimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japan's carmakers. He's a young, successful executive at an Internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable ___67___. He used to own Toyota's Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses ___68___ subways and trains. "It's not inconvenient at all," he says. ___69___, "having a car is so 20th century."
Suda reflects a worrisome ___70___ in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal, ___71___ among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic devices. ___72___ minicars and luxury foreign brands are still popular, everything in between is ___73___. Last year sales fell 6.7 percent—7.6 percent ___74___ you don't count the minicar market. There have been ___75___ one-year drops in other nations: sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007 ___76___ a tax increase. But experts say Japan is ___77___ in that sales have been decreasing steadily ___78___ 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 ___79___, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association ___80___ a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. It found a ___81___ wealth gap, demographic(人口結構的)changes and ___82___ lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their ___83___ longer, replace their cars with smaller ones ___84___ give up car ownership altogether. JAMA ___85___ a further sales decline of 1.2 percent in 2008. Some experts believe that if the trend continues for much longer, further consolidation(結構) in the automotive sector is ___86___.
67. A) profit B) payment C) income D) budget
68. A) mostly B) partially C)occasionally D) rarely
69) A) Therefore B) Besides C) Otherwise D) Consequently
70. A) drift B) tide C) current D) trend
71. A) remarkably B) essentially C) specially D) particularly
72. A) While B) Because C) When D) Since
73. A) surging B) stretching C) slipping D) shaking
74. A) unless B) if C) as D) after
75. A) lower B) slighter C) broader D) larger
76. A) liable to B) in terms of C) thanks to D) in view of
77. A) unique B) similar C) mysterious D) strange
78. A) over B) against C) on D) behind
79. A) mess B) boom C) growth D) decay
80. A) proceeded B) relieved C) launched D) revised
81. A) quickening B) widening C) strengthening D) lengthening
82. A) average B) massive C) abundant D) general
83. A) labels B) cycles C) vehicles D) devices
84. A) or B) until C) but D) then
85. A) concludes B) predicts C) reckons D) prescribes
86. A) distant B) likely C) temporary D) immediate
Keys：67-71 C A B D D 72-76 A C B D C 77-81 A A D C B 82-86 D D A B B
詞匯解析：
第67題：income
n. 收入，收益，進款，所得
in-=in；into；on “進”，income（進來的東西）。其它幾個選項“profit”指“利益；有力”（pro-=forward；fit=make）：“payment”指“付款，支付，報酬，償還，報應，懲罰”：“budget”指“預算；編入預算”，均不符合題意。
第70題：trend
n. 傾向，趨勢
vi. 伸向，傾向，通向
其他幾個選項“drift”意思是“沖洗，漂流物，觀望，漂流”：“tide”意思是“潮，潮汐，潮流”“current”意思是“電流，水流，氣流”，均不符合題意。
第73題：slip
n. 滑倒，事故，片，紙片
vi. 滑動，滑倒，失足，減退
vt. 使滑動，滑過，擺脫，閃開，塞入
adj. 滑動的，活絡的，有活結的
其他幾個選項“surge”本身是個拉丁語“= to rise（立起）”，所以其意思是“”（海水、情感等的起伏；澎湃）：“stretch”意思是“伸展，伸長”：“shake”意思是“搖動，搖，顫抖，震動”，均不符合題意。
第77題：unique
adj. 唯一的，獨特的
uni-=one，源于拉丁文unus=one.其他幾個選項“similar”的意思是“相似的，類似的”，源于拉丁文similis=like（相似的）：“mysterious”意思是“秘密性的；不可思議的”，myst=mystery（秘密），源于希臘文mythos：“strange”意思是“陌生的；奇怪的”，均不符合題意。
第80題：launch
n. 下水，汽艇，發(fā)射，發(fā)行，投放市場
vt. 使（船）下水，擲（標槍等），發(fā)射（導彈、火箭等），開辦，發(fā)動，發(fā)起
vi. 起飛，下水，投入，開始
其它選項幾個意思“proceed”意思是“繼續(xù)進行；開始”，pro-=before，ceed=to go：“relieve”意思是“減輕；免除；解救”，re-=again，lieve=to raise：“revise”意思是“修改；修訂”，re-=again，vi=see，均不符合題意。
第82題：general
n. 普通，將軍，概要
adj. 一般的，普通的，綜合的，概括的，全面的，大體的
n. 常規(guī)
其他幾個選項“average”的意思是“平均的”：“massive”的意思是“厚重的，大塊的，魁偉的，結實的”，mass=塊，團，-sive是形容詞后綴：“abundant”的意思是“豐富的；充足的”， ab-=away，und=to wave，-ant是形容詞后綴，均不符合題意。
第83題：vehicle n.
交通工具，車輛，媒介物，傳達手段，源于拉丁文vehere=to carry，-cle表示“個體；個別”。其他幾個選項“label”意思是“商標”：“cycle”意思是“周期，循環(huán)，自行車”，cyc-=ring（環(huán)）：“device”意思是“裝置，設備，圖案”，均不符合題意。
