I got my first driver’s license(执照)in 1953

题目内容：

I got my first driver’s license(执照)in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte,North Carolina. Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman. Henry and I were living in Baltimore, Maryland. Two weeks before my 20^th birthday, Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon. When I got to the office and showed to the man behind the counter my North Catrolina driver’s license,ready to renew, the man told me that I was under age by Maryland law since I was not yet 21. “Mr. Henry Smith, your husband, will have to sign for you,” he said.

I argued,pointing to a very lage belly(肚子)of mine,”I am married. I am having a baby. Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?” He answered coldly, “It’s the law, madam?”

Henry encouraged me to calm down,just go ahead and get the license and be done with it “No.” I said. I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license.

I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Office and renewed my NC license by mail-using my name Susan Brown. And thus it was for the next twelve years. Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license. By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland, and I had to take the Maryland driver’s exam. Since then I just go in and renew every four years-sign the name Susan Brown,have my new picture taken, and walk out with a license to drive.

小题1:

Susan got her first driver's license .

A．before she got married to Henry

B．when she was twenty years old

C．after she finished high school

D．when she just moved to Maryland小题2:

Susan failed to renew her license the first time in Maryland because .

A．she was forbidden to drive by Maryland law

B．she lacked driving experience in Maryland

C．she was to give birth to a baby soon

D．she insisted on signing for herself小题3:

We can infer from the text that in the U.S. .

A．American males should serve in the army

B．different states my have different laws

C．people have to renew their licenses in their home states

D．women should adopt their husbands' family names after marriage

最佳答案：

小题1:A

小题2:D

小题3:B

答案解析：

小题1:细节理解题。由第1段可知拿证4年后作者20岁，排除B，由第1句知道是作者在中学第1年取得的驾驶证，排除C，领了证件4年后作者和丈夫在Maryland排除D。选A。

小题2:细节理解。由第3段I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license.

小题3:推断题，由续办驾驶证到后来从新考驾驶证可看出选B。

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