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V. Discourse Structure 篇章結構 5%    It was a double date like countless others: Two teenage girls and their teenage boyfriends, with plans to see a movieon a summer night. But this one ended in grief. Sixteen-year-old Gerald Miller swerved his sport-utility vehicle to miss acar stalled on Interstate 95. The SUV, traveling about 78 mph, rolled five times. The boys were injured. The girls — CaseyHersch, 16, and Lauren Gorham, 15 — were thrown from the SUV and died.To many who knew the victims, the crash seemed like a cruel act of fate, a freak tragedy beyond anyone's control. 70 Put a 16-year-old boy at the wheel of an SUV. Add two or three teens, including at least one other boy. Send them out atnight. Finally, let them travel fast — and unbelted. Those common factors emerged when we examined all the deadly crashes involving 16-to-19-year-old drivers in 2003.About 3,500 teenagers died in teen-driven vehicles in the USA that year — a death toll that tops that of any disease orinjury for teens. The South proved to be the deadliest region. More than two-thirds of fatal single-vehicle teen crashes involved nighttime driving or at least one passenger age 16 to 19.Nearly three-fourths of the drivers in those crashes were male. 71 . Their rate of involvement in fatal crashes wasnearly five times that of drivers ages 20 and older, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. New medical research helps explain why. 72 . Some state legislators and safety activists question whether16-year-olds should be licensed to drive. Sixteen-year-olds are far worse drivers than 17-, 18- or 19-year-olds, statistics show. Tellingly, New Jersey, which haslong barred 16-year-olds from having unrestricted driver's licenses, for years has had one of the lowest teen fatality rates inthe USA.  73 . Seven states and the District of Columbia don't give unrestricted licenses to anyone under 18. In Britain andGermany, teens can't drive until ages 17 and 18, respectively. Rules that restrict driving at 16 have clearly had a positive effect, the insurance institute says. 74 . But the rate amongthose who are licensed has shown no improvement.
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