初中英语九年级上学期期末模拟卷（3）

      If you want to do a school project on children's rights (权利), you can look on the Internet for some information. A United Nations website can show you plenty of useful information for the project.

     The United Nations lists the rights of children. Most countries agree all of them, but some countries do not. The following are some of the most important rights of children:

    ◆Children have the right to be properly fed, clothed and sheltered (庇护) by their family. If their family can't do so, the government should take responsibility.

    ◆Children have the right to an education and medical care, which should be provided by the government.

    ◆Children must not be cruelly punished (惩罚) by their parents or any others.

    ◆Children have the right to expect the government to protect them from all kinds of abuse（虐待）and neglect (忽略).

    ◆No child under fifteen should be made to fight in an army.

    ◆Children have the right to be protected from being made to work too hard to make money for other people.

     In some countries children do not have these rights. Many young children are made to work long hours in factories and on farms. In some countries there are so few schools that only rich children get an education. There are not enough doctors or nurses to help many children when they are sick.

     The rights of children are, therefore, the rights people think children should have. They are not always the rights children really have.

  Hi, my name is Mei Shan. I study in a high school now. It seems that my life has changed a lot in the past few years. For example, I used to be short but now I am tall. I used to have long hair, but now I have short hair because I have no time to take care of it. I used to be afraid of the sea because I didn't know how to swim, but now I am a good swimmer in our school. As for eating, I used to have meat and eggs but now I like eating more vegetables.

  When I was young, I didn't use to read any books, but now I often read some storybooks. When I was in primary school, I used to play ping-pong with my friends after school, but now I have to go home right now and do my homework. I didn't like math and I used to be terrified of tests, but now I like all the subjects and never mind any tests. In the past, I used to have time to chat with my friends online, but now I am too busy to do it. How I miss my old days!

    Margaret Porter is a violinist and music teacher. According to her, the best age to start learning the violin is between three and six. She says, “It's the time when you are learning about the world.” Margaret, who was born in London, likes to take pupils at three and four. However, she has made lots of exceptions (例外) for five-year-olds. She started teaching the violin in 1972 and she taught her children's five-year-old school friends at first.

    In Margaret's opinion, it's important for one to know why music sounds the way it does. Without knowing it, one can't become a great musician at all. So from the earliest lessons, pupils in her class learn to play by ear. They do not even try to read music until they have been playing for several years. Margaret says that her method is not to produce great violinists. She always suggests that pupils should leave and study the violin using more traditional methods.

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—It     be him.He told me he would play basketball after class,but he's not sure.

—The man     T-shirt is red.

提示：

1）世界上原来没有纸，人们在石头、木片或者竹子上刻字( carve characters)；

2）中国的蔡伦发明了纸张，他教会人们用各种废料(waste materials)来造纸；

3）纸的发明推动了人类文明的进步( development of human civilization),人们会—直记住这位伟大的发明家。

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