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A．Critical.
B．Sympathetic.
C．Appreciative.
D．Difficult to tell.
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A．He is excited about them.
B．He accepts them as natural.
C．He is disturbed by them.
D．He questions their usefulness.
A．Richer countries exporting capital to poorer ones.
B．Tata Motors buying two old British car making companies.
C．Rich countries borrowing money from emerging economies.
D．Developing countries bringing managerial skills to developed ones.
A．the future of global free trade is optimistic.
B．developing countries make no contribution to liberalization.
C．the concern of developing countries may affect the progress of liberalization.
D．issues negotiated in the Doha round of global trade talks weren't practical.
Suda reflects a worrisome trend in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal, particularly among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic gadgets. While minicars and luxury foreign brands are still popular, everything in between is slipping. Last year sales fell 6.7 percent--7.6 percent if you don't count the minicar market. There have been larger one-year drops in other nations: sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007 thanks to a tax hike. But analysts say Japan is unique in that sales have been eroding steadily over 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 decay, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association launched a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. It found a widening wealth gap, demographic changes--fewer households with children, a growing urban population--and general lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their vehicles longer, replace their cars with smaller ones or give up car ownership altogether. "Japan's automobile society stands at a crossroads, "says Ryuichi Kitamura, a transport expert and professor at Kyoto University. He says he does not expect the trend to be reversed, as studies show that the younger Japanese consumers are, the less interested they are in having a car. JAMA predicts a further sales decline of 1.2 percent in 2008. Some analysts believe that if the trend continues for much longer, further consolidation in the automotive sector (already under competitive pressure) is likely.
Japanese demographics have something to do with the problem. The country's urban population has grown by nearly 20 percent since 1990, and most city dwellers use mass transit (the country's system is one of the best developed in the world) on a daily basis, making it less essential to own a ear. Experts say Europe, where the car market is also quite mature, may be in for a similar shift.
But in Japan, the "demotorization" process, or kuruma banare, is also driven by cost factors. Owning and driving a car can cost up to $ 500 per month in Japan, including parking fees, car insurance, toll roads and various taxes. Taxes on a $17, 000 car in Japan are 4.1 times higher than in the United States, 1.7 times higher than in Germany and 1.25 times higher than in the U. K. , according to JAMA. "Automobiles used to represent a symbol of our status, a Western, modern lifestyle. that we aspired for, "says Kitamura. For today's young people, he argues, "such thinking is completely gone."
Cars are increasingly just a mobile utility; the real consumer time and effort goes into picking the coolest mobile phones and personal computers, not the hippest hatchback. The rental-car industry has grown by more than 30 percent in the past eight years, as urbanites book weekend wheels over the Internet. Meanwhile, government surveys show that spending on cars per household per year fell by 14 percent, to $ 600, between 2000 and 2005, while spending on Net and mobile-phone subscriptions rose by 39 percent, to $1, 500, during the same period.
For Japanese car companies, the implications are enormous. "Japan is the world's second largest market, with a 17 to 18 percent share of our global sales. It's important, "says Takao Katagiri, corporate vice president at Nissan Motor Co. The domestic market is where Japanese carmakers develop technology and build their know-how, and if it falters, it could gut an industry that employs 7.8 percent of the Japanese work force.
While surging exports, p
A．no longer consider owning a car as being fashionable.
B．tend to be rebellious in their choice of automobiles.
C．are becoming more reasonable when buying cars.
D．are becoming more and more interested in owning cars.
A．Nissan trying to attract the young with promotional blogs and a videogame.
B．Sony offering a racing game for players to virtually drive the latest model.
C．Toyota Motors opening an auto mall as part of a suburban shopping complex.
D．Apple moving its products out of the soulless superstore and into retail spaces.
A．Ottawa
B．Winnipeg
C．Vancouver
D．Montreal
A．the Bill of Rights
B．the Civil Rights
C．Federalist Papers
D．the Articles of Confederation
A．Mark Twain
B．Daniel Defoe
C．William Makepeace Thackeray
D．David Herbert Lawrence
A．Nathaniel Hawthorne
B．Harriet Beecher Stowe
C．Stephen Crane
D．Eugene O'Neil
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