《2025年初中英语阅读教程九年级英语下册外研版》

Simulation(模拟考场)
PASSAGE 5
难度:★★★
words: 231 time: 6 min.
Last month some parents visited a pizza restaurant in Florida with their children. On the door, they saw a sign “NO CHILDREN.” “Why can't we bring our children?” “What on earth does the owner want to do?” The parents were surprised and complained angrily.
So why did the restaurant put up the sign on its door?
Troy Taylor, the owner of the pizza restaurant, found that many parents couldn't control their children and many children couldn't have meals quietly, so they disturbed other customers. Some people said that this was unfair. Mr Taylor explained his decision. He said that the restaurant was near a busy road, so there might be some danger if the parents didn't take good care of their children. So he made up his mind to ban (禁止) children from his restaurant.
Others supported his decision, they said they were bored of noisy children in restaurants and now they could finally have a place for adults only.
3. In fact, many other restaurants have also met the same problem. Some have done nothing and others have tried to ban children during certain times of the day. There's one restaurant in Italy. It has been creative in dealing with the problem. They rewarded (奖励) well' behaved children to encourage parents to control their children.
4. These methods may be useful for a while, but it is difficult to solve this problem completely.
Answer the following questions.
1. Why does Mr Taylor ban the children from his restaurant?
2. There are four methods to solve the problem in the passage. Which one do you think is the best? Why?
Translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.
3. ______
4. ______
5. Please give a proper title to the passage.

答案： 1.Because the restaurant was near a busy road, so there might be some danger if the parents didn't take good care of their children. 2.The fourth. Because it encourages parents to control their children by rewarding well-behaved children and it is creative in dealing with the problem. 3.实际上，很多别的饭店都遇到了同样的问题。4.这些方法可能一时有用，但要彻底解决这个问题还是有困难的。5.Banning children from the restaurant