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南京博创教育文化有限公司 wwwwww..nnjjbboocchhuuaanngg..ccoomm 江苏专转本英语阅读专项习题 Passage One A rectal study, published in last weeks Journal of the American Medical Ass ociation, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driv er, Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times a s likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone, By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional pas senger. The authorities also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increase d dramatically after 10 p.m., 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 d o with really stupid behavior than with just a lack of driving experience. T he basic issue. Robert says, is that adults who are responsible for issuing l icenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled a task driving is. Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (使…… 缓解)the problem is to have states institute so-called graduated licensing syst ems, in which getting a license is a multistage process. A graduated license re quires that a teenager first prove himself capable of driving in the presence o f an adult, followed by a period of driving with night of passage restrictions, before graduating to full driving privileges. Graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes, according t o recent studies, About half of the states now have some sort of graduated lice nsing system in place, but only 10 of those states have restri