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老外考中国驾照连考四次才通过

Recently, I decided to apply for a driver's license inChina. Since I already have one from the U.S., themain thing I had to do was pass a computerized test on the rules of the road here. I figured itwould be a breeze。

最近，我决定申请中国驾照。因为我在美国已经有驾照了，所以现在只要通过计算机里有关交通规则的考试就行。我想这还不是轻而易举么!

Driving and car ownership have taken off in China. Last year, the country added nearly 18million drivers. There is so much demand for licenses that I had to wait a month for the firstavailable testing date。

买车和开车在中国已经相当普遍了。去年，中国新增了近1800万开车族。申请驾照的人太多，我等了一个月才有机会参加初试。

The night before my test, I decided to take a practice one online. There were 100 questionsdrawn from a pool of nearly 1,000. You had to get 90 correct to pass。

考试前一晚，我决定先在网上练习一下。考试共100题，从1000个题目中抽取而成，满90分才算通过。

I got a 65 and started to panic. On the way to the testing center the next day, I crammed onmy iPad, but still only scored a 77.

我考了65分，不禁紧张起来。第二天去考场的路上，我用iPad又做了一遍，结果才有77分。

Why is the Chinese driver's test so hard? For one thing, it requires a ton of memorization.Consider this yes or no question, taken verbatim from a test: