【正文】 and especially after midnight, With passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late night accident. Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “The basic issue.” Be says, “is that adults who are responsible for issuing licenses fail to recognize how plex and skilled a task driving is.” Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (使……緩解 )the problem is to have states institute socalled graduated licensing systems, in which getting a license is a multistage process. A graduated license requires that a leenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence of an adult, followed by a period of driving with night of passcager restrictions, before graduating to full driving privileges. Graduated licensing systems have reduced leenage driver crashes, according to recent studies, About half of the states now have some sort of graduated Hcensing system in place, but only 10 of those states have restrictions on passengers, California is the strictest, with a novice(新手 )driver prohibited from carrying any passenger under 20(without the presence of an adult over 25)for the first six months. 21. Which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the passage? A) Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after 10 . B) A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car. C) Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night. D) A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight. 22. According to Robert Foss. The high death rate of teenage drivers is mainly due to ________ A) their frequent driving at night C) their lack of driving experience B) their improper way of driving D) their driving with passengers 23. According to Paragraph 3. which of the following statements is TRUE? A) Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive. B) Driving is a skill too plicated for teenagers to learn. C) Restrictions should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving lessons. D) The licensing authonties are partly responsible for teenagers39。s School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor39。 time as they are now D) in five people will fet about the degree the MBA graduates have got 28. According to Scheetz39。 This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school. The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists, Why? Human development is based not only on innate (天生的 ) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social rote to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditio nally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders. In the last 30 years. however, a secretrevelation (揭示 ) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television, Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加區(qū)分地 ), to all viewers alike, be they children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures. Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a plex code of symbols that must be memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can read plex mate rials. 31. According to the author, feeling depressed is ________. A) a sure sign of a psychological problem in a child B) something hardly to be expected in a young child C) an inevitable has of children39。 and 39。 are mon expressions. In fact, anyone who would challenge another39。What do you think of the new Ford cars? And he may reply, In my opinion, they39。It39。 tastes. C) Someone who values only their own opinions. D) Someone whose opinion harm. other people. 38. The new Ford cars are cited as an example to show that ________. A) it is foolish to criticize a famous brand B) one should not always agree to others39。s criticism B) means that one can impose his pre6ereaccs on others C) doesn39。s head ________from behind. A) should have been made C) would have been made B) must have been made D) ought to have been made 54. Finding a job can be ________and disappointing, and therefore it is important that you are pre pared. A) exploiting C) profiting B) frustrating D) misleading 55. The British government often says that furnishing children with ________ to the information superhighway is a top priority. A) procedure C) explore B) protection D) access 56. Louis Herman, at the University of Hawaii, has ________a series of new experiments in which some animals have learned to understand sentences. A) installed C) devised B) equipped D) formatted 57. Researchers at the University of Illinois determined that the ________of a father can help improve a child’s grades. A) involvement C) association B) interaction