2009年6月英语四级完形填空真题

　　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(人口结构的)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(结构) 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

　　词汇解析：

　　第67题：income

　　n.　收入，收益，进款，所得

　　in-=in；into；on “进”，income（进来的东西）。其它几个选项“profit”指“利益；有力”（pro-=forward；fit=make）：“payment”指“付款，支付，报酬，偿还，报应，惩罚”：“budget”指“预算；编入预算”，均不符合题意。

　　第70题：trend

　　n. 倾向，趋势

　　vi. 伸向，倾向，通向

　　其他几个选项“drift”意思是“冲洗，漂流物，观望，漂流”：“tide”意思是“潮，潮汐，潮流”“current”意思是“电流，水流，气流”，均不符合题意。

　　第73题：slip

　　n. 滑倒，事故，片，纸片

　　vi. 滑动，滑倒，失足，减退

　　vt. 使滑动，滑过，摆脱，闪开，塞入

　　adj. 滑动的，活络的，有活结的

　　其他几个选项“surge”本身是个拉丁语“= 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，伸长”：“shake”意思是“摇动，摇，颤抖，震动”，均不符合题意。

　　第77题：unique

　　adj. 唯一的，独特的

　　uni-=one，源于拉丁文unus=one.其他几个选项“similar”的意思是“相似的，类似的”，源于拉丁文similis=like（相似的）：“mysterious”意思是“秘密性的；不可思议的”，myst=mystery（秘密），源于希腊文mythos：“strange”意思是“陌生的；奇怪的”，均不符合题意。

　　第80题：launch

　　n. 下水，汽艇，发射，发行，投放市场

　　vt. 使（船）下水，掷（标枪等），发射（导弹、火箭等），开办，发动，发起

　　vi. 起飞，下水，投入，开始

　　其它选项几个意思“proceed”意思是“继续进行；开始”，pro-=before，ceed=to go：“relieve”意思是“减轻；免除；解救”，re-=again，lieve=to raise：“revise”意思是“修改；修订”，re-=again，vi=see，均不符合题意。

　　第82题：general

　　n.　普通，将军，概要

　　adj.　一般的，普通的，综合的，概括的，全面的，大体的

　　n.　常规

　　其他几个选项“average”的意思是“平均的”：“massive”的意思是“厚重的，大块的，魁伟的，结实的”，mass=块，团，-sive是形容词后缀：“abundant”的意思是“丰富的；充足的”， ab-=away，und=to wave，-ant是形容词后缀，均不符合题意。

　　第83题：vehicle　n.

　　交通工具，车辆，媒介物，传达手段，源于拉丁文vehere=to carry，-cle表示“个体；个别”。其他几个选项“label”意思是“商标”：“cycle”意思是“周期，循环，自行车”，cyc-=ring（环）：“device”意思是“装置，设备，图案”，均不符合题意。