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
-ence
acceptees
acyrologically
Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel
aledge
amber lights
Amurang, Tk.
angle of repose
anti-mycotic finish
Asahina-dake
baker's chocolates
be down for
boat top(ping) paint
bouilli
Bråby
camera operation
capital of Finland
cash shortages and overages
Chris Evert
circumventricular
Comercinho
compressinal vibratin
cross addition
cutting-tip
cyclical balanced budget
daub onto
diaphragm spring
different application at different depths
dioleylphosphatidylglycerol
dominance deviation
double letter
dudss
dynamic error debug
dynamic mutual-conductance tube tester
enforce obedience from sb
expanded air
fbt
Filaria loa
flat junction
Florida beans
Freixo
furnace pressure
glottochronologist
goodhews
Hippodrome
jakwood
JCEMB
Juwayzah
kenyapithecini
length upstream reach
Let'em eat cake.
low-inference descriptors
luminaria
Macaloge
macropore
makas
Manhattan
megalopenis
Milepa
mouvance
MVT
natural sleep
non-radiative
nonmuscular
nucleohyaloplasm
one's pigeon pidgin
one-sevenths
phase-coherent measurement
planogrinder
plauded
Pleioblastus globinodus
possesso
power spectral density (psd)
prehominid
programmable graph generator
pseudocercospora dichrocephalae
Ramus marginalis
redons
renunciation of right
roentgenometer
severel
sharp-pointeds
sinking kibble
skough
spell it
spiral canal
sprinters
stand-points
standard breaking capacity
starting salary
strictly speaking
system defined record
taxonomist
Taygonos, Mys
thermal critical point
timetalbe
transit account
trimetalic
two layers flow
Urechites suberecta
vaginal hematocele
variable cost ratio