Ingeneral，lawsforchildrenareagoodthing.

Onehundredyearsagoinindustrialcountries,childrenworked18hoursadayinafactoryatageseven.Thefactoryownercouldbeatachildwhofellasleeporwasnotfastenough.Bothparentsandteacherscoulddothesame.

Today,therearemanylawsaboutchildrenallovertheworld.Somepeoplethinkchildrenmustobeyrulesortheyshouldbepunished，othersdonotagree.TheInuitsorEskimosinAlaskaalmostneverpunishtheirchildren.Theparentsdon’thitthem.Ifthechildrengotoofar，theparentspunishthembymakingfunofthem.

ChildreninotherpartsoftheworldarenotasluckyasEskimochildren.Americanparentscanspank(打……臀部)theirchildrenathome，butateachercannothitachildinapublicschool.ThisisalsotrueinGermany.Incontrast(對比),itisagainstthelawforanyonetohitachildinSweden.Swedishparentscannotspanktheirchildren.Thechildrenalsohaveaspecialgovernmentofficialwhoworksfortheirrights.Thereisevenaplanforchildrentodivorcefromtheirparentsthoughthisisnotalawyet!

根據短文內容回答下列各問題。

16.Howwerechildrentreatedinindustrialcountries100yearsago?

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17.Whatdoestheauthormeanby“gotoofar?”

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18.CanateacherinGermanyhithisstudentsinpublicschool?

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19.WhatkindofpeoplecanbeatchildreninSweden?

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20.Whatdoesitmeanby“aplanforchildrentodivorcefromtheirparents?”

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參考答案與解析：

【文章大意】通常而言，為兒童制定法律是件好事。100多年前，在工業國家，7歲大的孩子在工廠一天要工作18小時，工廠的老板可以打小孩，家長和老師們也可以這樣做。今天世界上有很多保護兒童的法律。有些人認為兒童應該遵紀守法，否則就要受到懲罰。其他人則不同，愛斯基摩人從不懲罰兒童。如果孩子們做得太過份了，父母親用開玩笑的方式來懲罰他們。在其他地方則不同，美國的家長可以在家打孩子的屁股，但老師不能在學校打學生。德國跟美國一樣。但在瑞士任何人都不能打孩子，并有專門的政府部門來維護孩子們的權利。

16.Theyweretreatedverybadly.

17.Dosomethingtoomuch.

18.No,hecan’t.

19.Nonecandothat.

20.Aplanforendingthechildren’srelationshipwiththeirparents.

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