48、Kimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japan’s car-makers. He’s young, successful executive at an Internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable ____. He used to own Toyota’s Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses ____ subways and trains. “It’s not inconveient at all,” he says. ____, “having a car is so 20th century.”
Suda reflects a worrisome ____ in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal, ____ among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic devices. ____ mini-cars and luxury foreign brands are still popular, everything in between is ____. Last year sales fell 6.7 percent, 7.6 percent ____ you don’t count the mini-car market. There have been ____ one-year drops in other nations: sales in germany fell 9 percent in 2007 ____ a tax increase. But experts say Japan is ____ in that sales have been decreasing steadily ____ 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 ____, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA____ a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. it found that a ____ wealth gap, demographic (人口结构) changes and ____ lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their ____ longer, replace their cars with smaller ones ____ give up car ownership altogether. JAMA ____ a further sales decline of 1.2 percent this year. Some experts believe that if the trend continues for much longer, further consolidation (合并) in the automotive sector is ____.

A．profit
C．income
B．payment
D．budget
49、
A．mostly
C．occasionally
B．partially
D．rarely
50、
A．Therefore
C．Otherwise
B．Besides
D．Consequently
51、
A．drift
C．current
B．tide
D．trend
52、
A．remarkably
C．specially
B．essentially
D．particularly
53、
A．While
C．When
B．Because
D．Since
54、
A．surging
C．slipping
B．stretching
D．shaking
55、
A．unless
C．as
B．if
D．after
56、
A．lower
C．broader
B．slighter
D．larger
57、
A．liable to
C．thanks to
B．in terms of
D．in view of