A sixth of undergraduates in Beijing this year have registered at driving school. The students, mostly from majors such as business management or international trade, will finish their driving courses within 20 days or so.
　　Training costs have dropped to 2, 600 yuan for students, according to the Haidian Driving School in Beijing. The price is not really low, but students will accept it, seeing it as an investment （投資）in their future. Familiarity with the operation of computers and fluent English are the basic skills graduating students need to find a job. But a driver’s permit has become another factor.
　　“In the job market, owning a driver’s permit sometimes strengthens a graduating student’s competitiveness for a good position, ”says Zhou Yang, an undergraduate at the China University of Political Science and Law.
　　Cars will become a necessary part of many people’s lives in the coming years, and it is difficult to get a permit out of campus because of the pressures on working people’s time. “Having a fulltime job after graduation offers limited time to learn to drive. We senior students have plenty of spare time, plenty of opportunity to learn. ”Zhou says.
　　Xu Jian, an official at the driving school, said undergraduates were very able and serious, and could grasp in an hour what ordinary people took four hours to learn. In this driving school, middle-aged people, young women and college students are the main customers.
　　To get a driver’s permit, a beginner is now required to have at least 86 hours’ practice before the final road test.
【小題1】The undergraduates are learning to drive because ________.

A．they like to drive cars
B．they need this skill to find a good job
C．they will not have any time to learn to drive after they have found a full-time job
D．most of them will be able to buy cars in the future
【小題2】Which of the following is likely to be Xu Jian’s opinion of students learning to drive?
A．It is better to learn it at college than at work.
B．Young people have an advantage in learning to drive.
C．It is a waste of money and time to learn to drive.
D．They will spend three times more time to learn to drive than usual.
【小題3】Which of the following can be the best headline for the passage?
A．Students Learn to Drive.
B．Students Pay Less to Learn to Drive Now.
C．It is Better to Learn to Drive at Colleges.
D．Welcome to the Driving School.


【小題1】B
【小題2】B
【小題3】A

解析試題分析：文章大意：文章介紹了美國(guó)人表達(dá)對(duì)父母的愛(ài)的兩個(gè)節(jié)日：母親節(jié)和父親節(jié)。
【小題1】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段第一句In the job market, owning a driver’s permit sometimes strengthens a graduating student’s competitiveness for a good position,可知他們學(xué)開(kāi)車(chē)是為了找到好工作，增強(qiáng)自己的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力。故B正確。
【小題2】B推理題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段徐建說(shuō)“大學(xué)生能力強(qiáng)，認(rèn)真，能用一小時(shí)學(xué)會(huì)普通人四個(gè)小時(shí)所學(xué)的東西”可以推理出年輕人在學(xué)習(xí)駕駛上有優(yōu)勢(shì)，故B正確。
【小題3】A主旨大意題。 全文報(bào)道北京的大學(xué)生熱衷于學(xué)駕駛的情況。故A正確。
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