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PART VI READING COMPREHENSION [30 min.]
SECTION A [25 min.]
Directions: In this section there are four passages followed by fifteen questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer. Mark your choice on your answer sheet.
TEXT A
Vehicle vogue seems to have taken a decidedly luxurious turn, if this week’s annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit is any indicator. Nearly a dozen automakers are unveiling new models or concept cars aimed at affluent buyers -- the goal being to win a place on the open, prosperous highway of the American luxury-car market. Says Michael Dale, president of Jaguar North America: "The economy is wonderful. Wall Street is doing great, and people want to buy a car that feels like more than just transportation. Frankly, you’re just not going to get that in a Firebird. "John Smith, general manager of GM’s Cadillac division, puts it another way: "Baby boomers have always been a relatively self-indulgent generation. Now that they’re becoming empty nesters, the luxury segment is benefiting. "... Indeed, the luxury movement represents the industry’s first significant market shift since the introduction of the minivan and the Jeep Grand Cherokee in the mid-1980’s. And it suggests that the old model developed by General Motors’ Alfred P. Sloan in the early 1920’s, which sliced the industry into carefully graded segments and moved consumers up as their income rose, may be headed for extinction. Instead, as automakers lavish more and more attention on a narrower, wealthier band of consumer, the U.S. is moving to a more European marketing model built around sales of luxury ears to the affluent and small, inexpensive shoeboxes on wheels for everyone else.
66. Firebird is ______
A. a luxury car.
B. a practical car.
C. a car that everybody likes.
D. a car that only American like.
正确答案是
67. According to the passage, the introduction of the minivan in the mid-1980’s was ______
A. a steady development of the car industry.
B. an unsignificant change to luxury movement.
C. a noted change in the car industry.
D. the gradual change to luxury movement.
正确答案是
68. Alfred P. Sloan developed a model, which ______
A. dealt mainly with the self-indulgent customers.
B. evaluated the customers.
C. was the reference of the customers.
D. was General Motor’s principles in producing cars.
正确答案是
69. In European market, the car makers pay more attention to the sales of ______
A. costly cars.
B. cheap cars.
C. boxes containing shoes.
D. minivans.
正确答案是