时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:朗文3L看听学英语第四册


英语课

  Lesson 99 Homework

"Finished!" Sandy cried.

"Me too!" Sue 1 cried.

Gretel has often noticed that Sandy and Sue don't have very much homework. She raised the subject at dinner the other evening and Mr Clark tried to explain. "In some countries," he said, "children are made to do a lot of homework from the moment they begin school. They're often obliged 2 to learn their lessons by heart and they are tested each day by their teachers. The children learn from exactly the same books and follow a strict state programme. It' quite the opposite in England. Teachers rarely make very young children do any homework. They rarely get their pupils to learn lessons by heart. The teachers themselves are usually free to choose the books they will use. Some teachers don't use books at all! After the age of 11 or 12, of course, children are generally made to do some homework, but never very much, From the age of 14 onwards, they usually heve quite a lot, as they will be taking important examinations 3. But even then, the question of homework is largely 4 their own responsibility."

Gretel thought English children were very lucky, but Sandy and Sue didn't agree-which is hardly surprising!



1 sue
vt.控告,起诉;vi.请求,追求,起诉
  • If you don't pay me the money,I'll sue you.如果你不付给我钱,我就告你。
  • The war criminals sue for peace.战犯求和。
2 obliged
adj.感激,感谢v.迫使做( oblige的过去式和过去分词 );使负义务;满足请求;施惠
  • We were obliged, faute de mieux, to drink the local beverage. 因为没有更好的饮料,我们只好将就着喝当地的。
  • Parents are obliged by law to send their children to school. 法律规定父母必须送子女入学。
3 examinations
n.检查( examination的名词复数 );考试;考查;试题
  • He had been forced to incriminate himself in cross-examinations. 他在盘问中被迫受到牵连。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Examinations are hanging over her head—that's why she can't sleep at nights. 她大脑里想的都是考试,所以晚上无法入睡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 largely
adv.大部分,主要地
  • It is largely dependent on the weather.这多半取决于天气情况。
  • Their conclusions were largely founded on guesswork.他们的结论大部份基于猜测。
学英语单词
'bos
acclimatizers
alternate policy
aluminum brass
aridity
arpromidine
attractiveness
Battenberg family
blennerhassett i.
blogophile
blue hook star
Bol'shoy Karay
brake shoe with wedge seat
by-liner
calcium g mbelite
camshaft packing nut
circular design
company values
compensated value
condyloid processes
conoscope image
counterjerk
cypriniformess
desert hares
disruptive innovation
docosadienoic
double muscled rump
dravo-lurgi travelling grate
efficient conversion
elachiptera (elachiptera) insignis
equivalent radius of soil particle
fashionablenesses
fibrous goiter
fremde stoffe
fueling bowl
full load saturation curve
genus mayetiolas
Geojindan
good and lawful
guarantee against price decline
half sphere
Healdton
hoplitic
Horadiz
hover-flies
incogitant
information-hungry
intake valves
inverse multiplexor
Isorbid
kabosy
kafirnigan (kofarnihon)
knowledgeably
labor pain
leg press
loess plain
long-jawed
Losoni
marijuanaholic
medical studies
Metastasic
miniexperiment
Moirax
moist subtropical climate
molecular crystal entropy
mufas
nidderings
noint
nonactivities
Osloites
ospfs
palmjob
Platyneurum
possesso
pre-coolers
prison school
registration marks
report template
responsible trading
royalize
SBCT
scope of repair programmes
shale density
soft sign
solid electron beam
steering reversal
sterigmaupsin
sugar snow
Tai Mong Tsai
Tanret's reagent
tarsulus
taxation theories and principles
tectonic fissures
think fit to do sth
transhsipment delivery order
umbelick
Valued Policy Insurance
variable speed pump
wesun
worm geared winch
writer's blocks
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