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中考首字母专练 21. In Britain you are a_______ to drive a car when you are seventeen. You have to get a two-year driving license before you can start. When youre learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you are not allowed to drive the car on the road a_____. You dont have to go to a driving school—a friend can teach you. The person with you isnt allowed to take money for the lesson u______ hes got a teachers license. B_______ youre allowed to have a full license you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you dont p______ the test, youre allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. Once there was a woman who passed her fortieth test after 280 driving lessons! When youve passed your test you dont have to take it again, and youre allowed to go on driving as long as you l________, if you are healthy. Britains o________ driver was a man who drove at the age of 100. 21 Keys: allowed, alone, Before, unless, pass, like, oldest. 22. How old is old? The answer has changed over the years. Two hundred years ago, you were old at 35. At the b________ of the 20th century, the average life span was 45. In 1950, a 70-year-old was really old. Today, a h________70-year-old is still thought young. So how old is old? The answer is one youve had many times, from all kinds of people, Youre as old (or young) as you feel. Your age simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body tells you how w youve lived. Nobody grows old by living a number of years, wrote a writer. People grow old when they dont have their ideas. People shouldnt have the wrong ideas about ages. S________ older minds can be as bright as young minds. Alice Brophy once said, It makes me unhappy when people say: You look young for your a_________. What does that (14) m ? You k ______you can die old at 30 and live young at 80. 22