A sixth of college students in Beijing this year have registered(登记) at driving schools. 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(投资) for the future. Familiarity with the operation of computers and fluent English are the basic skills graduating students need to find a job. And a driver’s license has become another factor.

“In the job market, owning a driver’s license sometimes strengthens a graduating student’s competitiveness(竞争力) for a good position,” says Zhou Yang, a college student 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 license after graduation because of the pressures on working people’s time. “Having a full-time job after graduation offers limited time to learn to drive. We senior students have plenty of spare time to learn,” Zhou says.

Xu Jian, an official at the driving school, said college students were very capable 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 license, a beginner is now required to have at least 86 hours’ practice before the final road test.

56. _____ in Beijing want to learn to drive.

A. Most college students

B. Many college students

C. Many students at driving schools

D. Most students who learn business or international trade

57. College students are learning to drive mainly because _____.

A. they need this skill to find a good job

B. they like to drive cars

C. they won’t 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

58. Which of the following is likely to be Xu Jian’s opinion of students learning to drive?

A. He thought it was better to learn it at college than at work.

B. He thought it was a waste of money and time to learn to drive.

C. He agreed that they should learn to drive.

D. He thought they would spend three times more time to learn to drive than usual.

59. Which can be the best title for the passage?

A. Students pay less to learn to drive now         B. College students learn to drive

C. It is better to learn to drive at college          D. Welcome to driving schools

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